[senit] ipods and video

From: david fettes <davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk>

There are loads of video conversion programs for the PC (just put "AVI to
MP4" in your search engine).  Looks like you'll have to pay though, unless
anyone knows a free one.  Some have a free trial version though.

Jamie

> From: david fettes <davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Reply-To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:53:08 +0000 (GMT)
> To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [senit] ipods and video
> 
> how do you make an mp4 file on a pc?
> or how do you convert a wmv or avi file to mp4?
> david
> --- Jamie Munro <jmunro at djsn.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> The iPods play .m4v files so even .mp4 files have to
>> be converted to run.
>> Itunes will do this (select a mp4 file you've loaded
>> into iTunes and look
>> under the Advanced menu) but I use QuickTime Pro
>> (which you do have to buy).
>> 
>> Jamie
>> 
>>> From: Richard Walter <richardwalter at ntlworld.com>
>>> Reply-To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
>>> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:34:40 +0000
>>> To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
>>> Subject: Re: [senit] ipods and video
>>> 
>>> david fettes wrote:
>>>> hi what video formats does the newer ipod nano
>> play? A
>>>> colleague wants to make a video to play on it
>> using
>>>> still jpgs and a PC. Will photostory3 videos play
>> on
>>>> it?
>>>> david 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>      
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>>> There is information on the Apple web site:
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304784
>>> 
>>> and some frequently asked questions on
>>> 
>> 
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302758
>>> 
>>> generally I think its mpeg-4 and mov files
>>> 
>>> I think photostory saves it's video files as wmv
>> so I would say that the
>>> ipod couldn't play them (although I could be
>> wrong).
>>> You can change wmv to other formats but I think it
>> will cost.
>>> eg.
>> http://www.my-video-converter.com/video_converter/
>>> 
>>> Richard Walter
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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