Posted by XP on 10/19/05 06:52

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:59:04 +1300, "Gary L T" <garylt@it.net> wrote:

>
>"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.
>
>snip
>
>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?
>
>



Why not try PSP Video 9 , its Free.


http://www.pspvideo9.com/

Has stacks of Options and can also work with VOB files that none of the
Commercial ones can do..

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