Filed under: iPod Family, Video, Tips and tricks, Internet Tools, iTunes
Yahoo! Video Search to Go for your new iPod
This is amazing! Basically, you enter in a search term and Yahoo! returns an RSS feed for all the MPEG files out there in Yahoo!land that match up. You then copy this RSS feed, go to iTunes, select Advanced—>Subscribe to podcast, and paste the feed in there. Next thing you know, iTunes is downloading videos for you to watch. Not all of the results will be ready to go straight over to your iPod out of the box, but it's still a pretty neat trick. I just found David Bowie's I'm Afraid of Americans video, featuring Trent Reznor, which I've been trying to track down for a while now. I presented a paper on it several years ago and need a copy for educational purposes. ;-) Unfortunately, it was a muxed MPEG1 file and wouldn't copy over to the iPod, so I'm looking into ways to convert it without losing the audio track.
Mad props to Thomas for sending in this tip!
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Kristoffer Segerlind said 12:40PM on 10-22-2005
The easiest way to get audio with mpeg-1 files is to convert it to an avi file or maybe 'xvid avi' and then convert that avi file into a simple mov file and then to iPod 320*240, found that out when I was experimenting with 'ffmpegX' last week.
Works Really Well, Enjoy.
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Dan said 12:48PM on 10-22-2005
You may want to try out MPEG Streamclip - works great in my experience, however I've never tried it out with an MPEG1 file:
http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html
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Dr. Webster said 12:48PM on 10-22-2005
QuickTime Pro, strangely, won't demux MPEG files properly, but Toast 7 will. Simply launch Toast, click the Video tab, add the file(s) you want to convert, and then click Export. Set your destination format, and off you go.
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Thomas said 9:59PM on 10-22-2005
Glad you enjoyed the tip. :)
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Leo said 7:26PM on 10-23-2005
This is awesome, but is it hard to find ipod-compatible videos? Will most of the videos need to be converted? (any way to specify what type of videos for the search to find?)
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Alex M said 3:01AM on 10-24-2005
Google's personalized home page (www.google.com/ig) can also sort of do this. Just click add content in the top left and under 'Create A Section' you can search for rss feeds.
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Marc Lee Winnig said 12:53AM on 10-27-2005
I have Adobe Premiere Pro. I assume I could use it to fix the demuxing problem by going to avi or something first. Wondering if you can export it to an .mpg that would somehow be de-muxed, and skip the .avi step. Essentially fix the .mpg? Still a couple of steps, but one less format. Any ideas???
Thanks!
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Marc Lee Winnig said 1:22PM on 10-27-2005
I have Adobe Premiere Pro. I assume I could use it to fix the demuxing problem by going to avi or something first. Wondering if you can export it to an .mpg that would somehow be de-muxed, and skip the .avi step. Essentially fix the .mpg? Still a couple of steps, but one less format. Any ideas???
Thanks!
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