iPod touch Do You Need Two Video Libraries?

[MadDoc]

I have a lot (about 1TB) of movies and TV shows ripped from my DVD collection on an external HDD. They are encoded using Handbrake with the AppleTV preset (which looks great).

I am probably going to get an iTouch (just not sure whether to wait for the SDK or not) and I would like to have some video on the iPod. Do I really need re-encode anything I want to watch on the iPod? Can the iPod not just rescale movis to fit its screen?

If not, that seems like an enormous disadvantage.

Thanks,

MadDoc

 

[eXan]

You will need to re-encode them. Not a resolution issue, as IPT/iPhone have 480x320 screens but can display 640x580 video. Its all about bitrate and encoding types.

 

[MadDoc]

So the iPod Touch can't handle 2000bps h.264 video?

MadDoc,

 

[eXan]

All the information you need is here