is it possible to play video on an iPod color?

[wmmk]

as the title says. i've heard about hacks, but i believe some may require that linuxforipod thing, which doesn't support color iPods. has anyone on MR done this? did it work well?

[wmmk]

eh, nevermind. i can get a refurb iPod video for $225 after i trade in my old blue 4GB mini at my local apple store:)

now i just gotta choose a color:)

[Vidd]

The iPod that you mentioned isn't officially supported but it still works.
I've used mine for videos and it works surprisingly well.

[RoxStrongo]

what exactly is required to enable such functionality?

[jimmychoi]

Yes, can someone elaborate on this for us? Thanks.

[Vidd]

It requires a quick installation of the iPodlinux firmware which, as far as I know, modifies the original Apple firmware to allow dual-booting of the two.
Videos are converted to decompressed .avi files as the previous iPods can't decode compressed video files with their processors.

The quality is quite surprising but the battery life suffers as it is used and it can go out of sync. Also, the last time I used it, a single video file could only play for around 15 minutes but they were working on it at that time and may have it fixed.