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iTunes 4.8!

Seems I was a bit quick on my "no iTMS..." earlier... just surfing the Norwegian iTMS... :D

But all the new flags just disappeared from the "Choose Store" again... :confused:
 
Video integration at the moment is very clunky, unless:
- Apple is planning on attaching music videos to songs downloaded from the store (singles only) in h264 .mov
- This explains why only .movs can be added - they contain both a video and audio file, as another pointed out. That way the audio portion can be burned and synced to an iPod
- It also explains why there are no movie-specific tags - Music videos DO have artists, albums, etc.
Lag is horrible though. And I wish that I could get the video to play full in the library window (ie: with the source pane and controls in tact) or have the video/album art show in mini-mode.

I don't think it's sign of a iTunes Movie Store - much too clunky for that, and Quicktime is a MUCH better choice to warp into an iTunes-ish movie handler than skewing iTunes towards movies. I do think it is a sign of better Music Video support on the store. After all - iTunes are for music, and music videos are an extension of music.
As for video iPod - yeah, I'd say that the music video thing pretty much ends Apple's "there's no content" beef. And Quicktime Pro movie recordings/Apple trailers, etc - seems to click.
Airport Express with video I would kill for, but not if I had to use iTunes' clunky method to watch my shows. Oh wait, it's not even possible to bring .avis into iTunes. Again, Quicktime is the better option.

Anyways, I've imported my music videos, and it's great for that. For full-scale movies.... no.
 
Well, that didn't last long:

Edit: But I'm still not thrown out of the Norwegian store... just signed in and added a son to the shopping cart... :)
 

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I hate how everyone says....

" would you want to watcha video on a 2 inch screen" the awnser is no, i would not. But then again, the ipods screen is rotated wrong for video. i imagine the entire face of the ipod to be a screen. then YES i would want to.I can really imagine an amazing video ipod, looking so damn close the the ipod right now, and having only 3 catagories, video ipod=white, ipod mini=colors, and ipod shuffle
andreas
 
this is quite possibly the worst implementation of a video player - ever. To quote myself, "Its teh sux0r!" I mean, wtf, it takes like 20 seconds to pause/play a .mov wrapped divx file.


I'm going back to vlc 'till next tuesday when they update this stupid feature again.
 
shidoshi said:
It is for me, at least with iTunes. I always have iTunes open, so having iTunes sync my stuff automatically when I plug my iPod in is great.

Don't get me wrong, though - users should have a choice. It shouldn't be either/or.
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Whenever I plug my iPod in, iSync launches to sync everything, so wasn't that better?
 
BWhaler said:
So...

we use System preferences to sync to .Mac
we use iTunes to sync to the iPod
we use iSync to sync to the phone
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I totally agree. This sucks. It plainly sucks.
Let's hope Apple has some kind of a hidden agenda going on…
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blueflame said:
" would you want to watcha video on a 2 inch screen" the awnser is no, i would not. But then again, the ipods screen is rotated wrong for video. i imagine the entire face of the ipod to be a screen. then YES i would want to.I can really imagine an amazing video ipod, looking so damn close the the ipod right now, and having only 3 catagories, video ipod=white, ipod mini=colors, and ipod shuffle
andreas
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Have you seen the PSP screen? It's really stunning. It's built to be watched (prolonged gaming sessions etc.), and it's positively lovely. I'd watch that for 2 hours on a train with a friend. Nothing stopping apple making summit with a similar screen!
 
MacPhreak said:
Not seeing it. I've tried two movies, and it just played the audio. Eh?

EDIT: Sometimes my own stupidity amazes me. I haven't updated yet. Someone smack me.
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smack.... u deserved it :p
 
kjr39 said:
And in other news.........YYYYAAAAWWWWWNNNNNN.

Until I get the ability to selective determine what codec/bit rate gets loaded to my iPods and does on the fly conversions for me, I am annoyed.
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Those features have been around for a long, long time. Just learn how to use smart playlists and set your iPod preferences to do the on-the-fly conversions to whichever AAC bitrate you like. When I get a second internal hard drive I'll probably save all my music in Apple Lossless and have it convert to 128kbps AAC on-the-fly for iPod transfers.

gorkonapple said:
Didn't iTunes support video back in 4.7?? I mean I remember WATCHING vids (music and trailers) in iTunes.
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The difference (apparently) is that you can now organize and store your own movies within iTunes. Before you were limited to whatever music videos and movie trailers iTunes gave you.
 
Stella said:
iTunes is becoming bloated.

There is little reason for iTunes to be responsible for the iPod syncing*. iSync is for syncing devices, not iTunes! iTunes should be for media content only.



(* this is probably done for the benefit for windows users to automatically sync outlook contacts?)
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No...... isync was becoming bloated, now they've removed the ipod and moved some other .mac stuff, perhaps they can concentrate on getting other devices to work with isync, like some of the phones that don't work too well.

I can't think of anything more natural than itunes syncing the ipod, why use 2 apps when one will do, I found it quite annoying sometimes running isync for the ipod only to have it hang for 30 seconds while it looked for my phone which happened to be in the car.
 
Ok maybe it is just me but i am having serious problems with iTunes now since i upgraded...I have tried playing a movie and looking at the preferences and both times it has just frozen up on me and i cant even Force Quit it and i need to restart my computer to get it back.....grrrrr. I was allowed to swear i would £$%@ :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Brandon Sharitt said:
Windows quicktime doesn't play Dixv to begin with. On windows the codecs is for WMP, and for Mac it's a quicktime codec.
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i'm aware but i was hoping codecs were installed with the update smarty pants
 
Norwegian Store is up and running

Just logged in to the Norwegian iTMS
 

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oingoboingo said:
The PowerBook mentioned in your signature falls well below the minimum specs that Apple recommends for smooth playback of HD H.264 video. The minimum specs are something like a 1.8GHz G5. Some of the sample HD clips available from Apple certainly don't play 100% smoothly on my 1.6GHz G5 PowerMac.
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Yeah I know, this was discussed in the thread.

beatle888 said:
on my 667 powerbook the movies arent smooth but the "image quality" is superior to anything ive ever seen on the web OR tv.

and on my girlfriends iMac G5 the movies are smooth and breath taking. H264 quicktime is shocking. i showed my friend and his jaw dropped as we watched the bald eagle wildlife movie on his 30" cinema display.
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I love H.264, the quality and compression is amazing. I was talking about iTunes' ability to play it. Did you watch the eagle movie on the 30" with iTunes or Quicktime?
 
did anybody find a way to download videos off the iTMS again? after itunes 4.7 it was broken, but now that itunes plays videos it'd be nice tyo have again.
 
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