Nov 02, '05 05:22:00AM • Contributed by: QuadProcessPower
My friend tried a larger screensize using the H.264 file format, and he said that his iPod would not accept it. So I am not sure about that format, but MPEG4 seems to be working fine in a larger size than what Apple is promoting on their site. When we hooked up my iPod to our TV, the quality of the video was amazing! And when watching it on the iPod, it fit in the screen; there was no cropping.
I am using HandBrake to convert my ripped DVDs, and I am doing a 2-pass encoding with the average bitrate of 2500kbps, so the constant bitrate is somewhere around 1400kbps, since it is variable. My video encoded is FFmpeg and the audio bitrate is set to 128kbps. If anyone gets H.264 to work in a larger screensize, please post your results...
[robg adds: I can't confirm this, but if someone could and post a comment, that'd be great -- one of my main complaints about the iPod Video was that using the TV connection would result in an awful looking film, given the limited resolution. But if you can really store and play oversized MPEG4s, that makes the product somewhat more interesting...]
