video formats supported by touch

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video formats supported by touch

What video formats does the iPod touch support? I have a video with the following info that iTunes say cannot be copied to the touch. My video is MPEG-4 video file, with a bitrate of 64kpbs. It's profile is Low Complexity, with total bit rate of 195kbps. Video dimensions is 208x160, and the video codec is H.264.

I checked the ipod touch specs and it says that it supports H.264 format in Low Complexity -- that's what my video is -- and still it cannot be played. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my video format?

By the way, I encoded it in AVC format -- much more clearer video with small file size than the non-AVC. Is it the AVC format that's whats causing the problem?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

iPod Touch 8GB, iPod mini 4GB, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Aug 25, 2008 2:05 AM

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Answer 1

Rudegar

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Aug 25, 2008 2:13 AM in response to Corey Miano

listed here
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html

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Corey Miano Author

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Aug 25, 2008 2:20 AM in response to Rudegar

thanks for the quick reply.. but yes i checked that page.. and it says my video is compatible with my ipod touch.. but itunes thinks otherwise and requires me to convert the video still.

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Aug 25, 2008 2:47 AM in response to Corey Miano

there seems to be a problem with the 2.0.2 firmware...
there is a thread called "THIS MOVIE FORMAT IS NOT SUPPORTED"
so certain MP4 files converted with H.264 codec don't play

I've tried downgrading iTunes and tried downgrading the iTouch to 1.1.4
- which i couldn't get to work - but NOTHING works..

guess we're going to have to wait for a patch/fix (i hope)
... let me know if you find a solution 🙂

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Aug 25, 2008 3:00 AM in response to madAndroid

Really?
Mine plays back just fine.
I have 100+ videos of tv shows I converted to H.264 that transfer just dandy.

I'm glad you told me 2.0 is broken-I guess I will have to stop putting video on my devices until it is fixed.

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Corey Miano Author

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Aug 25, 2008 3:32 AM in response to Johnathan Burger

Actually, other videos i converted using Quicktime is in the H.264 format and they play fine.. but the weird thing is that those videos encoded by another program, Nero Recode, doesn't work even though inspecting the Get Info for both videos converted in Quicktime and Nero tells me both of them are remarkly the same.. both on H.264 format. It's weird.

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Corey Miano Author

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Aug 25, 2008 3:34 AM in response to madAndroid

well i don't want to downgrade to 1.1.4. I guess I'll just have to encode them to a non-AVC format.. more than twice the file size with the same quality. My touch is only 8GB so space is a big deal for me. Maybe I should've went to the 16GB version.

You mentioned you can't downgrade to 1.1.4. Why?

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Aug 25, 2008 7:29 AM in response to Corey Miano

I use iSquint for some video conversions. It works perfectly fine for me.

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Corey Miano Author

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Aug 25, 2008 5:04 PM in response to a Mac user

oops, I'm on Windows.. 🙂

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