[MPlayer-users] h264 video for iPod / iTunes?

[Mark Himsley]

RC wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:59:36 +0000
> Mark Himsley <mark at mdsh.com> wrote:
> 
>> And over the weekend a patch went into libavformat to create a new
>> format of 'ipod' which will insert the necessary extra stuff to make
>> h.264 video play on iPods,
> 
> To make this clear: h.264 at 320x240 already worked.  It's only 640x480
> h.264 that needs the code for an Apple/iTunes workaround.

Not wanting to be pedantic, but 480x272 also needs the workaround. If we 
tried we could probably say any h.264 with greater that N macroblocks 
requires the workaround but I haven't been bothered to work out/look up 
N :-)


-- 
Mark