Oh, I forgot to mention that I did end up ordering one -- a black 60gb model. I'm doing some video encoding tests as I type this!

dvenne, Junior Member, you can always take it to a jeweler and have a design put over the engraving. Heck, that's what I'm doing. Someone on ebay is gonna get a great deal when t…

^^^Hey, Gordy, is that picture in your sig available in a larger version?

Gordymac, thanks for pointing out that and also that I am a junior member...maybe I won't sleep tonight.

ive done some testing and it seems that on a dual 2.0 g5, a movie taking a two pass process@400kbps for video would take about 2 hours (when the movie itself is two hours) using ha…

Quote: Originally Posted by mdc got my brother a black nano. matches the black psp i got him. You are one generous brother.

Quote: Originally Posted by mdc got my brother a black nano. matches the black psp i got him. almost ordered a white psp today to go with the white ipod next week. Holy…

Quote: Originally Posted by dvenne I bought a 20 Gig iPod the week before the annoncement. Then I received it in no time. I believe I am stuck with it because it is engraved. …

You can return normal iPods within 14 days, but not engraved ones.

how funny that i get to participate in one of these threads. ordered a black 30 yesterday. black b/c why not and b/c my girlfriend has a white 30gb photo so it makes things easier…

I have my 60GB iPod Photo all loaded up with my tunes. I got a white 4GB Nano due to it's size and portability (love taking it on my bike rides). I'll get the 60GB white iPod Vid…

^^^ No, it's cool. I just wish I had that much money to spare…

Quote: Originally Posted by andreas_g4 ^^^ No, it's cool. I just wish I had that much money to spare… homeboy, i just got a job that actually pays. do you know how long …

I want to announce the following: Even if I am the last one in this thread to get my iPod, I insist to post pictures of the grand package opening experience!

I have a mac and a pc, on the pc i can move dvd videos to my psp with a program called xcopy9 (http://psptransfer.com/), is there a similar program that can do the same for my new …

Check this out: http://diveintomark.org/howto/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/ It's two stages in the sense that you have to rip the DVD manually first, but that's really no big deal. I'm…

wow thanks, i did not expect such a quick reply, your awsome!

Quote: Originally Posted by Heiro wow thanks, i did not expect such a quick reply, your awsome! I don't quite understand why that page recommends using two packages. Handbr…

Does handbrake actually decode DeCSS? It's possible that it will work from DVDs, but only ones that aren't encoded. Or perhaps it only works directly from the DVD, which can wear o…

I'd rather dump it to my hard drive over letting the DVD drive spin throughout the entire encoding process (which takes a looooonng time).

I've been doing some experimenting with the method outlined in the link above. The iPod is supposed to play both MPEG4 and h.264 video, so I did some test encodings using both code…

A couple other observations: Queueing in handbreak doesn't seem to be implemented yet after all. Going into the Energy Saver preferences and changing the setting from "Automatic"…

thanks for the trial run, Icruise. Pan & Scans always results in a larger file size over the Widescreen versions. Time to get a faster Mac so I can do some faster encodes....

Another update: From what I have read from people who are now getting their iPods, this encoding method does not work on the iPods (at least the h.264 encoding). And people using …

This is similar to converting your music library to AAC/MP3 - it takes a lot of your time. I remembered sittting for nights on end slowly feeding audio CDs to my Mac. It was excrut…