Dirty Little Secrets Now iTunes Compatible

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I realized that I was delivering the Screencast (or Dimecast as I've heard it called) in WMV format to make Silverlight/Zune delivery easy.  Of course iTunes doesn't support that.  I've changed it to use both formats, for live viewing its in wmv for Silverlight (until H.264 is supported), and for the podcast feed its in H.264.  It *should* work in iTunes/iPod (though I don't use either so I'll leave it to you my readers to be my testers!  Here's the links to subscribe to the PodCast Feed:

  • Subscribe with RSS (Simple RSS for other PodCast readers)
  • Subscribe with iTunes

Thanks!

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ITunes works fine now.

Bob Millar (Posted Sunday, September 21, 2008 )

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Good tip :)

Works well in iTunes but can't transfer it to my iPod Touch(Software version 2.1). Comes up with a message saying that the file can't be played on my iPod.

Ola Karlsson (Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 )

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I don't know how to debug this problem. Apple has approved the podcast so they think its MP4 encoded which should work on your iPod...any other clues would be helpful.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 )

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Hmm, at work so I don't have tooo much time ;)

Not sure if this would have anything to do with it... The Spec in the apple site (http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html) mentions "Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v," looking at the info about the file that came down in iTunes. it says "Total bitrate:210". 160 vs. 210.. Don't know much about this kind of stuff, so I have no idea if that would cause it.

Ola Karlsson (Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 )


 



 
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