Converting video for display on 5G iPods [was Re: Searching for Freeware DVD player application]

In the message "Re: [MAGNet] Searching for Freeware DVD player
application", dated 2005-10-25, Greg Merritt wrote:

>On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Dustin Li wrote:
>
>>VLC is a general purpose video player (it works with almost every sort of
>>media I've thrown at it):
>>http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>
>I'd like to second the recommendation for VLC, and draw folks'
>attention to it if they haven't come across it before.
>
>It is actually kind of a super-generalized software "video in ->
>video out" tool.

   As an aside to this thread, a commercial product was released
yesterday (2005-10-24) whose primary claimed benefit is making it
relatively easy to convert many video sources to the specific formats
playable by Apple's new video-capable, fifth-generation iPods:

   Podner by Splasm Software
   http://www.splasm.com/products/productpodner.html

   This is likely the first of a number of applications for making
content available on the new iPods; there is at least one freeware
application (in beta) for this purpose listed on the Mac download
sites, as well.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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