I got one of the video iPods yesterday for my 18th Birthday. The only thing is videos I have in Quicktime cnat be converted to the iPod w/o Panther OS X 10.3

Do any of my fellow mac users want to lend a hand for some Panther 10.3 software. This will allow me to upgrade to Quicktime 7 which is very good to have with the new iPod.

At one point 10.3 was available for free and then you had to purchse the software

My current version is 10.2.8 OS X

Thanks,

Besides that I love it! Apple is great and they are more than ever being competitive with their products.

Well i found a software for 10.2 version through someone and it is converting most of my vids so far the picture is awesome on the screen. I am still gonna have to buy Tiger (not Panther it is no longer sold). My QuickTime needs to be updated to Pro. It will cost me but I'll have to.

I have a HP GOF Trailer & some music videos all crystal clear.

It would be very helpful to others if you could tell how you imported your vids to iTunes & iPod. These are example queries: 1. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...unes+and+video

2. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...unes+and+video

As I suggested, I don't have a video compatible iPod so I can only check within iTunes.

BTW Happy 18th!!!

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Apple does list the requirements as 10.3.9 or later, so there might be nothing to help you but that upgrade.

I've been using ffmpegX which is phenomenal for making iPod compatible videos. And they have a version that will run on 10.2.

One note. You have to use the PSP preset to make a video that will run on the iPod. That video preset automatically makes the output 320x240. But if the dimensions of your source video were anything other than 4:3 then the output will be distorted, so you need to change the output back to the right ratio.

Also, the iPod can actually support MPEG-4 video up to 480x480. It does you no good if you are watching on the iPod, but if you plan to plug the iPod into a TV to watch, then encoding the video at the higher resolution will give you better output.

Still, once you make the video's, there is no guarantee that you'll be able to get them on the iPod if you don't have the right version of iTunes and the Mac OS.

Good luck.
Loren


This was from a member of a mac related site and it may work for you. It worked for me play with it a bit and see what comes up.

When you go on the site go to the forum and click latest news thread my post is in there under Josh06.

Hope it works out ok,

Josh

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Thanks Josh! Much appreciated. AFAIK you need QuickTime 7.0.2 for video previewing in iTunes. Not even QT 7.0.1 is enough.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR