Re: EphPod future plans

Probably not much use to anyone, but I just read on the
www.hydrogenaudio.org forum that you can "convert" mp4's with quicktime
pro without re-encoding them:

> Next, I loaded "01-Nero.mp4" into QuickTime Pro 6.2 and did a file
> export. Export was set to "Movie to MPEG-4." And, I went to Options /
> Audio tab and set the Audio Track to "Pass through." 

Hamish.

On Mon, 5 May 2003 22:07:51 +1000
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I have figured out how to edit the header from the great research 
> forwarded to me here.
> I have almost completed a commandline program that converts an mp4 to an
> m4a (the difference here being mp4 is mpeg 41, not 42 and does not have
> the iTunes udat atom)
> Once that's done, I'll make it available to you guys, as well as adding 
> support for it in EphPod.  It will be up to someone else (or maybe me in 
> the not-so-near future) to write a tag editor for the iTunes udat atom 
> (not too difficult, so if you're interested, just let me know and I'll 
> give you what I have).
> --joe
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Hamish O'Dea wrote:
> > 
> > I tested the files I posted about before on iTunes. Both would display
> > and play properly when called .mp4, but of course I couldn't send them
> > to the iPod.
> > 
> > When renamed to .m4a, however, I had interesting results. I could put
> > both files on the iPod, and both played on the iPod. However,
> > test-faac.m4a would not play in iTunes. iTunes said "not available" in
> > the song length column. When playing it on the iPod the elapsed time
> > shows 0:00 and remaining time -0:00 while the song plays.
> > 
> > Test-quicktime.m4a played OK in iTunes and showed the correct time while
> > playing on the iPod.
> > 
> > So it looks like iTunes is fussier about the songs it plays than the
> > iPod (or Quicktime) is, which is not too bad for Windows users, but
> > might be a pain for people going between Windows and Mac.
> > 
> 



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