QUESTION: Able to Hack A 4th Gen iPod Classic? (Watching Videos)

[AK'z]

Simple question, any way to hack the system so we can watch a video on it.

It is able to view photos and play music in a colour screen, possible for a video playback system?

[Cinnamon]

I'm pretty sure this would be very impossible, simply due to the limited processing capability of the 4th gen. There may be a way to load a Linux environment onto it with some voodoo magic and MAYBE get a small enough codec running to play videos, but I'd have no idea where you should start.

[Protocol7]

[URL]http://www.rockbox.org/[/URL]

Maybe? Not 100% sure if it's compatible but looks like it.

You can even theme it to be almost like the iPod firmware:

[URL="http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=1311&target=ipodvideo"]http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=1311&target=ipodvideo[/URL]

Still, I dunno a lot about iPod classics but worth a shot.

[AK'z]

[QUOTE=MrWhite;31639154]I'm pretty sure this would be very impossible, simply due to the limited processing capability of the 4th gen. There may be a way to load a Linux environment onto it with some voodoo magic and MAYBE get a small enough codec running to play videos, but I'd have no idea where you should start.[/QUOTE]

in that case forget it.

I don't want to watch pathetic video quality. Thanks for the help. :)

[Protocol7]

Rockbox for the 4th gen comes with a MPEG Player.

[AK'z]

i'll have a look, see if it's good.

[editline]10th August 2011[/editline]

well I tried it, didn't work.

Plus the system seemed to have slowed a bit by it.