I want to make Dvd to ipod movies larger in size so I can veiw them more easily on a Tv. Will they still work

Question

on my ipod if the video is larger than the ipod's screen?

Answer 1

You might be surprised at how densely the iPod screen is packed. A standard TV set displays in 640x480, while an iPod Video has a screen resolution of 320x240. What this means is that no matter how big your standard-definition TV screen is, it's only equivalent to four iPod Video screens combined. Shocking, isn't it?

Anyways, this being the case, there's no point in loading videos in a format that's larger than 640x480 (a very standard resolution for most digital cameras and camcorders, BTW) unless you're planning to pump the feed to an HDTV. Otherwise, any extra data will have to be downscaled to fit the regular TV screen, just like it will when you play it right on the iPod. I uploaded a few 640x480 30fps videos that I shot with my current digital camera, and when I used a special iPod A/V cable to play the image over my very regular TV set, they looked perfectly fine. So do the handful of video podcasts that I've downloaded (incidentally, I used to have a real hard time getting myself to watch them at all until I could watch them on my TV screen). Incidentally, if you want to pick up a handy little A/V cable so you can just use your iPod like a miniature DVD player, I've included a link to the least expensive one I've found so far (Monster wants $50 for theirs, and the cheapest I've found in any local store is about $23!). Keep in mind that the video feed on this will not work unless you tweak the settings on your iPod to have it send the signal to an external source instead of displaying it on the screen. And yes, if you're wondering, this cable just plugs directly into the headphone jack (there's one contact that's just for video function, right at the top of the jack, and it'll even work with the Apple universal iPod dock, though I can't say for sure about any other brands), leaving your dock port free for some sort of power source.

Answer 2

If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to take a movie from your Ipod and put it onto a DVD so that you can watch it on a much larger screen like your TV. Is that correct?

If that's the case, then I don't think you will be very happy with the results, because the amount of pixel information that makes up the movies on your Ipod will look terrible when they are stretched out onto a larger screen.

It's the same thing as when you come across some video clip on the Internet and it's too small, so you try making it a little bigger by using 2x magnification and a lot of times it's so bad that you can no longer tell what is even going on.