iPods

[moowithme111105]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:33pm

Ok, for those who have the video iPods, is it just me, or does the battery not last that long?


Updated On: 1/1/06 at 03:33 PM

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:46pm

mine lasts a long time, but goes quicker when i watch a video.
i usually charge it every night or every other night to give it a full charge and use it durring the day.

[moowithme111105]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:49pm

My friend told me if you plug it into a wall charger it will screw it up, is that true?

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:50pm

no... the wall charger is the only way i charge it.

[lamentingenvelope]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:50pm

Yeah, when you have the screen on, it really sucks the battery... same as any other device, cell phones, digital cameras... the battery lasts a fairly long time though if you're just listening to music.

[ikmbway]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:58pm

Just got mine and like every ipod I have had the battery doesn't know when it is low or not. I was watching a video on it yesterday on my flight home and it kept saying I was almost dead when the color turns red. Then a few minutes later when I listened to music I was back in green. So then I decided to watch more and i was watching for a little bit and when I go back to see my battery its in green still. I had this problem with my mini but my battery when watching videos is pretty short also when you dont need to dont put on the backlight. It sucks so much battery out of it.

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 5:04pm

Sorry... random. But how do you get videos to play!?

[GClef2]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 5:08pm

If you want a long battery time for it, go to settings and adjust the backlight to only 2 or 5 seconds. The 15 or 20 second backlight will eat up the battery power.

[James885]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 5:15pm

Yeah, the backlight really drains the ipod battery. I usually find that the battery last longer when I listen to songs without fast forwarding or rewinding, which kinda sucks because I like to listen to certain parts of songs over and over

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 8:44pm

Thank you DramaDork.

Since you guys seem to know how to get the videos to work, can you PM me or something... I've tried Videora, doesn't work.

[JACXR71]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 9:04pm

Someone told me you have to buy software to convert video files. In other words, you can't just put wmv, avi, etc files directly on to your iPod. Is that true? What software do you guys use?

[Chenofan #1]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 9:32pm

Mine lasts a good amount of time. I charge mine evry night. It does die down a tiny bit more when you watch movies and such, but not so much that you have to charge it right away. It's a very good iPod (mine, at least). I would recomend it to anyone. (Except to a very little kid who will lose it in 10-15 minutes).

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:16pm

Well... you can use Videora, if you can get it to work... which you download.

The other option is quicktime, which is 30 bucks. Which I'm probably going to borrowing from someone at work.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:19pm

LilMiz-

Videora already has the set bitrates and such that you should use for the iPod. All you have to do is plug in the file name, and say to convert it. Then drag and drop.

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:04pm

okay.. i just uploaded some pictures onto my ipod, and while i was looking at them it froze. and it won't unfreeze. anyone know what to do?

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:14pm

Mine does that a lot. Plug it in and wait awhile... it should unfreeze.

[JACXR71]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:29pm

I'm a little confused - I downloaded Videora but it seems to be a Kazaa-type file sharing program. I already have the video files I want to put on my iPod, they're just not in the right format. I have Quicktime, which LilMiz mentioned, but it's the free version that came with iTunes. What am I missing?

[JACXR71]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:01am

Bump...anyone? How to put videos on the iPod?

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:16am

I just know how to put videos on the normal way.

My battery, though, lasts as long as I need it to. Just don't keep the backlight on so long, as everyone says.

[JACXR71]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:26am

What do you mean the normal way? Do you mean downloading them from iTunes? Is there any way to put videos on my iPod, that is, videos I already had on my computer that were not downloaded from iTunes, without buying additional software to convert them? It's looking more and more like that's not the case.

Updated On: 1/2/06 at 11:26 AM

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:27am

I meant from iTunes. I really don't know if it's possible to do it another way. You should email Apple and ask.

[JACXR71]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:32am

Yeah, that's what I thought you meant. On the Apple website it says it is possible to convert files using Quicktime, but it's the version you have to buy (as opposed to the free version that comes with iTunes). I know there are other conversion programs besides Quicktime, I was just wondering if any of them were free....guess not.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:38am

You could try downloading the program from Kazaa or something (I never said that).

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:44am

For Videora you want the 'Videora iPod COnverter'

Not the actual videora.

Aigoo, I'm giving my videora one last shot... I uninstalled it, and then I reinstalled it so we'll see how it works! If not I'm going in and buying quicktime.