iTunes and PalmOS

[cambrihonne]

Does anyone know if there is a way for iTunes to recognize your palm as an iPod.. or just a device to copy music to?

I know you can drag and drop music from iTunes directly to the Palm:|Audio directory..

But i would like better management than that..

Soooo.. if anyone knows of anything.. that'd be nifty

Running WinXP w/ iTunes 7.. They have this for MacOS with MissingSync.. so there could be hope for a Windows vers

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There is an app for Windows that lets you sync iTunes playlists with your Palm... I can't recall its name offhand, but I know it is linked somewhere on 1src in another thread.

[LanMan]

Mass Storage Synchronizer 1.3
By Tea Vui Huang
(tvhuang@hotmail.com)
www.teavuihuang.com/massstorsync/

[pixelpainter]

mOtion is a media app that synchs with iTunes.

[cambrihonne]

i didnt know mOcean did that.. i would get that but i have enough media players as it is on my palm haha.. ill try the MSS sounds good

[Sir Stunna Lot]

will video pocast and movies that are in iTunes format be playable on the TX using the previously listed softwares?

[SoS]

will video pocast and movies that are in iTunes format be playable on the TX using the previously listed softwares?

Nope! For video playback (specifically H264 for video podcasts from iTunes etc) you'll need to buy Coreplayer (just google it)...

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...or else use TCPMP with the AVC and AAC plugins (you'll have to search for those separately).

[SoS]

...or else use TCPMP with the AVC and AAC plugins (you'll have to search for those separately).


..absolutely..!

[mightyone3013]

itunes video and movies come in m4v format. does TCPMP or coreplayer or any other play those files? And as touched upon before, are there any player that can be authorized w/ itunes to play those pesky DRM ridden video files?

[_Em]

m4v is just a fancy way of saying mp4 video. You might have to change the extension to .mp4. The video is encoded as mp4 video and aac audio. On the downside, anything encrypted with FairPlay can only be played via iTunes or an iPod.

[SoS]

m4v is just a fancy way of saying mp4 video. You might have to change the extension to .mp4. The video is encoded as mp4 video and aac audio. On the downside, anything encrypted with FairPlay can only be played via iTunes or an iPod.


mv4 and mp4 are just containers! The underlying compression codecs are H264 (aka AVC) for video and AAC fo sound. You therefore need a decoder for each of these! Just changing the file extension wont make any difference if the decoder plugins are not on board.

[Sir Stunna Lot]

...or else use TCPMP with the AVC and AAC plugins (you'll have to search for those separately).

too lazy =P

mind pointing the right direction for the plugins?

[_Em]

mv4 and mp4 are just containers! The underlying compression codecs are H264 (aka AVC) for video and AAC fo sound. You therefore need a decoder for each of these! Just changing the file extension wont make any difference if the decoder plugins are not on board.

m4v is an Apple extension for mp4 containers, indicating a video file. Audio only (ie: AAC) is m4a. However, MPEG-4 Video is a video codec, which resides inside the MPEG-4 container format (or in the Quicktime container format as a .mov if you want). You can also embed H.264 in an MPEG-4 container, instead of MPEG-4 video. By default, iTunes videos are encoded as MPEG-4 video, not H.264. MPEG-4 is roughly equivalent in size/quality to DivX. H.264 is roughly equivalent in size/quality to XviD.

Changing the file extension DOES make a difference, as some players check the extension instead of the container fileheader to see what sort of container they are trying to open. Since m4v is not a recognized container extension, the player ignores m4v files. Change it to mp4, and suddenly the player knows it's an MPEG-4 container, and looks inside to see what codecs are being used.

[mightyone3013]

then changing the file extension from m4v to mp4 will get it to be recognized on palm desktop? to be converted for the tx?

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then changing the file extension from m4v to mp4 will get it to be recognized on palm desktop? to be converted for the tx?

Possibly... I'd suggest trying it and seeing what happens.

Remember: anything BOUGHT from iTMS won't work, as it is encrypted.

[mightyone3013]

No unfortunately while the palm desktop sees the file in the add media tap, once the file is selected and opened, it replies that the file is not supported. And for some reason, when you change the file extension, the windows explorer clashes..