A New Hope: 720x304 MPEG4 on the iPod

By C.K. Sample, III

As a follow-up to my earlier post about compressing movies for the iPod, I just wanted to note that I just finished successfully encoding Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope directly from DVD to iPod format using the version of Handbrake linked to at Accelerate Your Macintosh!

The resulting video is an MPEG4 file, weighing in at 1GB in size and at a 720x304 aspect ratio. More than is needed for the iPod itself, but it does play on the iPod and displays nicely on an external TV set. Not too bad.
 

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