IPOD Downloads from website

snicholshms wrote on 2/1/2006, 4:30 PM

My company does videos for the Boy Scouts in our city. They have asked us for directions on how to set up their website so that scouts can download videos from the Boy Scout website to their iPODS.

Anyone have any experience setting up websites to download iPOD formatted videos?

I did a search on all the forums but nothing about setting up the website came up
Any help will be appreciated!

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jrazz wrote on 2/1/2006, 4:41 PM

Here is a recent thread on encoding to ipod format (m4p I believe).

As for the website, upload the videos to the website using something like filezilla (free ftp). Make a page with the links on them that point to the files and there you have it.
You need to make sure that the website host will support the bandwith and that they have enough storage space for the videos.

Hope this helps.

j razz

tygrus2000 wrote on 2/1/2006, 6:25 PM

Looks for an free application called Super 1. It literally has automated setting to convert to any mobile format including ipod.

busterkeaton wrote on 2/1/2006, 7:25 PM

Are IPod specs the same as PSP specs? If not, Sony should get us some Ipod templates pronto.

The video Ipod is going to be a big deal.

snicholshms wrote on 2/1/2006, 7:54 PM

Thanks everyone for the help! SONY has got to provide Vegas with H.264 and some iPOD templates. Main Concept and Quicktime Pro offer it.
Creating video for mobile technologies is probably different than video for a DVD to be played on a TV. Kind of like video for the web...no panning, more closeups, etc.

tygrus2000 wrote on 2/1/2006, 8:29 PM

Super has the H.264 open source codec built in. As far as I know its identical to the proprietary one used by Apple.

tygrus2000 wrote on 2/1/2006, 8:31 PM

There are several overlapping video specs between ipod and PSP, so you have have one file for either app. Super also has encoding options for media enabled phones as well such as Nokia and Ericksson.

tygrus2000 wrote on 2/1/2006, 9:01 PM

Here are some mobile video links I came across:

www.mobitv.com/index.html (there is a content creators area under contact us)
www.getvcast.com (dont see where 3rd party videos are accepted)
www.omn.org/producerfaq.htm
www.mpegnation.com/
www.filmloop.com
www.pic2vid.com
www.indieclick.com
www.revver.com