When I first heard about this, I was soooo excited. I thought how cool it would be to play video on my iPod--even though it is a 3g iPod, and thusly has a greyscale screen, I had read that this didn't matter. I downloaded a video someone had shot of their greyscale iPod playing a video and decided it looked good enough to try.
The official iPod Linux video player page is here:
http://ipodlinux.org/Video_Player
Ben Gotow has posted an awesome tutorial for Mac users here:
http://www.gotow.net/blog/ipodlinux.php
If you're on a Windows machine you can probably get help here:
http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=21
But there are three things you should be warned about.
1) There's no sound. This sort of makes you wonder why anyone bothers at all with this. Still, if you're a wannabe hacker like me, it's fun to watch videos on devices you're not supposed to.
2) You need to convert your videos. I haven't done this yet, so I don't know how hard it is to do.
3) I can only get the sample video clip to play once without having to reboot the iPod. The complete clip plays once and then stops. If I try to load it again, it just hangs. I'm not complaining, just warning.
In short, I'll be sticking to watching videos on my Nintendo DS for now. I do want to send out a big THANKS to everyone who is involved with the iPodLinux project, the video player project specifically and also to [http://www.gotow.net/blog/|Ben Gotow] for whipping up that uber-helpful tutorial.
No comments:
Post a Comment