Damn, that's not very cool, and who would have though. Fortunately, at only 14,200 feet, I'm happy to report that my iPod still works

It's been covered and mentioned before.

The spec'd max altitude is 10,000 feet. http://www.apple.com/ipod/color/specs.html Chris

I use mine skydiving and I take mine to 14,000 feet MSL all the time. There are a lot of people that jump with them all the time and I havent had or heard of any issues. They are…

Quote: Originally Posted by Dark Sailor My father-in-law and three of his kids all climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro (19,335 ft at summit) last month. All four of them took iPods along to…

Well, if nothing else I guess it's been documented that the envelope has been pushed to 17,000 feet.

iPods while mountain climbing and skydiving?!?! Shouldn't you be concentrating on the task at hand?

Quote: Originally Posted by rambo47 iPods while mountain climbing and skydiving?!?! Shouldn't you be concentrating on the task at hand? Multitasking.

Shoulda had nanos!

Wow, at a max altitude of 10,000 ft (per the specs), that places some people homes above that here in Colorado. I wonder if Apple has ever used peoples city information in their r…

Hard drives are hermetically sealed. The difference in air pressure is probably what destroys them....

if a hard drive is sealed, why are there breathing holes in them? you know the "dont cover this hole" bits? there is also the guy who maid the oil-cooled PC and killed a HD by sub…

Quote: Originally Posted by Randman It's been covered and mentioned before. Golly, what an insight.

Quote: Originally Posted by all2ofme Golly, what an insight. It is insight. The insight is, "Hey, let's try the search key!"

Quote: Originally Posted by all2ofme Golly, what an insight. Are you talking about my car?

Don't know if this was covered in another thread or not, but hard drives are NOT hermetically sealed. The head relies on air to "fly" above the surface of the media. Lower air pr…

Exactly. Hard drives are "sealed" in that the "breather" holes are filtered very carefully, but hard drives definitely are at ambient pressure inside. Special sealed and pressuri…

I want to create a series of 'muxed' mpeg2 files. ... I want individual good quality files that can be played in Windows Media Player ... I don't want to author a DVD as the 'play …

I've been trying to learn this stuff today as well. (for MPEG-2 files from a DVB TV receiver) ffmpegx is pretty easy for muxing - there aren't that many options in the 'tools'-&g…

This is easy to do in Toast. As long as the m2v and aiff are in the same directory and have the same name (as is normally the case when they are created) You just drag the m2v t…

Thanks for those suggestions.... really appreciated. I did get a bit further with ffmepg and the theory is there in that muxing does appear to be straigth forward in the 'tools' s…

Ok I've done a bit more on this: 'The Missing Mpeg Tools' has the same effect as ffmpeg... creates a file that will play OK in Quicktime but in Windows Media it jumps at the same p…

This is simple. If you have Final Cut 5, then you can use Compressor 2 to create a transport stream mpeg2. It's on pages 125 and 143 of the Compressor user manual. Good Luck, Mul…

Read here. Since it's a Spielberg creation it must be something great...but what IS "it?"

3D as he has talked about it in the past.