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Posted by Gary L T on 10/19/05 05:59
"Bruce Hoult" <bruce@hoult.org> wrote in message
news:bruce-AC4C01.16492919102005@news.clear.net.nz...
> In article <dj3s4a$hii$2@mughi.cs.ubc.ca>,
> davem@cs.ubc.ca (Dave Martindale) wrote:
>
>> >Personally I rip all my cd's directly to mp3 format in iTunes, change in
>> >preference is all that is needed.
>>
>> But don't you pay a price in space, compared to Apple's own compressed
>> format?
>
> Apple don't have their own lossy compression format. Their default
> format for ripping in iTunes is AAC, which is the audio part of the
> MPEG-4 standard, just as MP3 is the audio part of the MPEG-1 standard.
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Getting back to the creation of video for the iPod, there is a tutorial
here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/creatingvideo.html
In the small print, it says that "by following the steps in this tutorial,
QuickTime 7 Pro will automatically create an .m4v file containing H.264
video and AAC audio that is optimized for iPod. The only trouble with
using QuickTime 7 Pro is that you have to pay for this program if you
want to make iPod compatible video files, but the audio programs
are an integral part of the free iTunes software.
I wonder if anyone has actually tried and had success with using any
of the other software conversion programs that have been referred to
in this thread? It's good that several other H.264 and MPEG-4
conversion programs exist, but some are expensive, and some
may not optimize the files for iPod. But if anyone knows of a
free conversion program that has actually made files that are
optimized for iPod and really do work on iPod, I would be
interested to know of them. Do you think Apple will make
such a program free to iPod users before long?
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