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#1 2008-07-15 1:31 am
- tesqua
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iPhone 2.0 -Supported Video Codecs
There is a website I frequent where I can download videos to my harddrive in *.mp4 format. They were encoded for video iPods, and before v2.0 I could seamlessly copy these videos to Itunes, sync to my iPhone, and watch on my iPhone. Now with iPhone v2.0, the videos that were ALREADY on my iPhone now give me an error: "This movie format is not supported."
Does anyone know what Apple changed? It seems a little ridiculous to me that they would reduce the supprted video codecs, but that seems to be the case. Is there something I can do?
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#2 2008-07-25 1:11 pm
Re: iPhone 2.0 -Supported Video Codecs
Those videos should still work. I believe you may have encountered a bug, or maybe your files got corrupted. I know that when you updated to 2.0 you had to do a clean install/restore of all your data, but maybe try deleting the videos off the phone and loading them again? I don't think there's an incompatibility w/ those videos in the new OS.
From Apple's iPhone tech specs page:
"Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats."
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#3 2008-08-01 12:08 pm
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Re: iPhone 2.0 -Supported Video Codecs
Exactly the same problem as tesqua. All these videos played fine until v2.0 and now they won't. It's not universal either. Some do, some don't. Only just discovered this while away from home and now I can't reload because the original files are on an external HDD at home. Grrrrr ... Anyone know why this is happening?
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#4 2008-08-09 8:55 am
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Re: iPhone 2.0 -Supported Video Codecs
OK. Back home now. Just downloaded and installed ver 2.0.1 of the iPhone software, deleted all my videos and reloaded them from iTunes and they STILL won't play. Ideas anyone?
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#5 2008-08-11 12:18 pm
Re: iPhone 2.0 -Supported Video Codecs
Would have been nice if codec packs like perian which are quicktime compatible could be installed.
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#6 2008-08-23 12:24 pm
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Re: iPhone 2.0 -Supported Video Codecs
Just convert them for iPod/ iPod in iTunes. In will take some time, but it will work.
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#7 2008-08-23 1:36 pm
Re: iPhone 2.0 -Supported Video Codecs
Did you mean:
TheConfuzed1 wrote:
Just convert them for iPod/ iPhone in iTunes. In will take some time, but it will work.
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