iPod New video iPod rumor

[SpinalTap]

I wonder if such a video-based iPod might in fact be a device for viewing DVB-H mobile television broadcasts, such as the Nokia 7710, which is being tested in Paris. It also handles radio broadcasts using AAC codecs. Just in time for Apple-Expo Paris, perhaps?

 

[christian_k]

Power for h.264?

The chip may have enaugh speed for mpeg4. But will it have for h.264? With the release of tiger and QT7 Apple is hyping h.264 as the next generation codec.
IMHO they have good reasons to do so, it is much better than DivX/XVID/.... and all the other mpeg4 based codecs. H264 becomes even more important as Apples mpeg4 implementation in QuickTime was quite poor - and Apple won't use anything but QuickTime.

If they make a video iPod, it must support h.264. Just mpeg4 is not enaugh....

Does anyone know if the cpu mentioned in the rumor is able to do it?

Christian

 

[Austin.xstone]

Well it is a realy good iPod - Now we know...