Watch IPod videos on your TV

What to say? Yes, it is true. And for some users prefer widescreen in contrast to Pocket TVs, this is the best thing about the new iPod. Now it's easy to spend your iPod videos on any TV. Simply use a special video cable (and it not even be one who sold by Apple), output that it through your iPod headphone jack, and voila! You're a couch potato, baby!



If you look at more interest videos on your TV, you can go with the MPEG-4 format, because it can support the larger 480 x 480 image size. If you are encoding widescreen movies and the pixel boundary typically 230.400 pixels is given to a TV. So if these larger images on your TV display, get you all see these additional pixels.



Okay, so you can see videos on TV, big dealWhat happened to my other videos?



If you download video files from the Web or file sharing networks, some of these files as a iPod can be marked compatible. Does this mean that you iPod can play it on your? Well, the good news is that it easy enough to find out.



Tip 1 – open iTunes



The easiest and less time consuming way to determine whether a video iPod-supported or not, just open iTunes with your iPod is connected. After you drop the video file directly to your iPod library. When the video to your iPod is copied, this means that it is compatible. If it is not, your iPod will be able to play it will be not.



Manage to copy the video to your iPod, select manually, songs, and playlists in the tab "iPod" of iTunes Preferences.



Tip 2 - Add video to the iTunes library



Add the other way to find out whether your video files is iPod compatible are your video to your iTunes library. The right lick video and choose Convert selection to iPod. You receive a warning from iTunes on your computer screen, you say if the video is already compatible. If it is not, your movie will be converted to a compatible h. 264 video for you.



We should probably mention that you don't really need to add videos to your iTunes library, you can add them to your iPod. Just drag and let videos from the Finder right on your iPod to iTunes. Again, make sure you have enabled the option to manage manually.



You can also songs and videos add to your iPod library from any computer, iTunes is. So make sure that you have enabled the option in iTunes manually manage. If your iPod was originally formatted on a PC, you can add files from PCs and Macs. However, if you iPod have a Mac formatted, you only files from other Macs will add.



Tip 3 - open the file in QuickTime



Alternatively find out also if your video is iPod compatible, if you open the file in QuickTime. Choose as the next window: map of movie information. In most cases, your video iPod-ready, should if the format h. 264, or MPEG-4, which is audio data ACC, and the size of the video 320 x 240 (or less) for h. 264 or 480 x 480 (or smaller) for MPEG-4. Also, consider the data rate and make sure that it does not exceed 900 Kbits/sec for h. 264 or 2600 Kbits/sec for MPEG-4.



In most cases, the bit rate of QuickTime the video stream would reported included and not so, questions whether the video is displayed, have the audio stream (usually 128 Kbits/sec) to a higher bit rate.