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joshuaaaron

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Jun 10, 2008
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well i have a movie .avi movie and i wanted it on my itunes for some organizational reason, and i'll be getting an iphone and wouldnt mind having a movie on hand
 

r.j.s

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Mar 7, 2007
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well i have a movie .avi movie and i wanted it on my itunes for some organizational reason, and i'll be getting an iphone and wouldnt mind having a movie on hand

Get iSquint, it will convert it to an iphone compatible format.
 

richard.mac

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Feb 2, 2007
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Is there any way to prevent the quality loss?

no because iPhone can only play mpeg and the .avi is a container which probably has divx or xvid video. coverting one video format to another format gives a loss in quality.

try to get a really good quality .avi and then encode it to .mp4 with high quality settings. this will result in a lower quality loss but will also take ages.
 

Steve Jobs=God

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Apr 13, 2007
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At the moment i use iSquint on the highest quality setting, but still end up sometimes with, not so much picture quality drop, but the sound track a couple of seconds out from the picture
 
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