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how bout
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holy crap . . . . . where's the instructions? i wonder how pissed SJ's gonna be!
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The Website it's linked from doesn't reveal anything, the site says that the Nano is running linux. I'm Impressed. I wonder if that means that the regular Photo could be taught to play a new trick too?
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While this is interesting and all, it's not like these guys have gotten the nano to play videos from the iTunes music store or anything (at least not without lots of conversion). The quality looks pretty bad, since the screen is much lower resolution than the normal iPod. Also, you have to be running linux on your iPod and you're limited to the nano's 2 or 4GB storage space, so you're not going to be fitting a whole lot of stuff there anyway.
In short, while this is an impressive display of ingenuity, I don't think that very many people will be actually using this to play videos on a daily basis.
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Not to mention that battery life will suffer greatly; I notice that use of the backlight on the nano impacts the battery life a lot more than on my 3G iPod...
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Originally Posted by SirCastor
The Website it's linked from doesn't reveal anything, the site says that the Nano is running linux. I'm Impressed. I wonder if that means that the regular Photo could be taught to play a new trick too?
iPod photo's have already been seen to do this, in much the same way. IE with Nerdlux installed. It was posted here a few months back.
So i guess the procedure is much the same for the Nano's then..
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The first thing that jumped out at me was the fact that there was sound with this video playing and there were no headphones plugged up to the nano. Explain why the sound would be heard and nothing connected to the nano to output that sound?
Now maybe I am wrong, but I think this was a joke.
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peace,
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Originally Posted by ciphun
The first thing that jumped out at me was the fact that there was sound with this video playing and there were no headphones plugged up to the nano. Explain why the sound would be heard and nothing connected to the nano to output that sound?
Now maybe I am wrong, but I think this was a joke.
ciphun
The nano's sound jack is on the bottom of the unit. The video didn't include the bottom half.
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Originally Posted by ciphun
The first thing that jumped out at me was the fact that there was sound with this video playing and there were no headphones plugged up to the nano. Explain why the sound would be heard and nothing connected to the nano to output that sound?
How can you tell that from the video? A Nano's connectors are along the bottom edge of the device, and not along the top edge.
EDIT: Toyin beat me to it.
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The problem with the ipod linux video player is that at the moment you need to convert the video to an uncompressed avi format. What we need is a concerted effort to gather sufficient interest that competent developers want to spend their time porting an opensource decoder/player package such as Mplayer or VLC to the ipod/linux platform. It could be hard geting usable performance, concidering that only the new video ipod has a dedicated video decoding chip.
I throw it out to the community, does anyone have too much free time!? 
--mafoo
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Not to mention the fact that you are really running linux and playing a video using that OS. It would be much more impressive if they were able to get the nano to play video from within the iPod's normal interface, much like an actual iPod video.
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When I connected my Nano for the first time (I ordered mine the same day it came out), iTunes showed an option for video. I thought it would be for future use but when I upgraded to the iTunes version that had video support, the option went away...
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anyone actualy know how to do that
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Still kind of funny that they got it to work. Too bad it'll never be a real option. Someone said it best that the quality sucks as well as battery life.
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