iPod avi

[joshuaaaron]

can itunes play .avi's?

 

[r.j.s]

quicktime can with perian, so can vlc. Why do you need iTunes to?

 

[richard.mac]

no. but you can install Perian, open it in QuickTime Player and save as a reference file and then add the reference file to iTunes.

 

[joshuaaaron]

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

 

[richard.mac]

^ well you didnt specify if you wanted to play it on your iPhone. use iSquint to convert the .avi to .mp4. note this will cause a loss in quality.

 

[r.j.s]

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.

 

[joshuaaaron]

and this is why i love this forum. thank folks

 

[Steve Jobs=God]

^ well you didnt specify if you wanted to play it on your iPhone. use iSquint to convert the .avi to .mp4. note this will cause a loss in quality.

Is there any way to prevent the quality loss?

 

[richard.mac]

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]

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

 

[richard.mac]

not sure sorry. just tinker with it and try again you might get the audio back in sync.