Comments on: squeezing audio from a video podcast

Question: squeezing audio from a video podcast

GrumpyMonkey — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:23:09 -0800

Is there a way to play the audio from video podcasts on my iPod?

I have several .m4v and .mp4 files and when I drag them to my iPod nothing happens. Normal podcast files transfer fine of course.

I have tried the "Convert Selection for IPod" in iTunes and it says that the files already are in the correct format.

I have found a million hacks to actually play the videos on my Nano but I really do not care about that - all that I really want to be able to do is to listen to the podcasts while driving to work. I can always watch the video when I actually am at my computer.

I am on a PC, using ITunes 6.0.4.2 with iPod software version 1.1.1.

By: jjg

jjg — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:33:56 -0800

If you can get the videos to play on your iPod, why not just play the videos and don't look at the screen?

Otherwise, you're in for a slow and painful process for each file you want to listen to -- you'll have to use video editing software to dump the audio track of the video to a file, then possibly convert that file to MP3 or AAC. Alternately, you could play the video and use audio capture software to grab the audio.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:54:33 -0800

I put a movie into a music playlist and it just played the audio with no video on my ipod. Try it, I bet it works.

By: mikeh

mikeh — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:56:47 -0800

I would imagine since it's a Nano that the ability to decode the audio stream of a video file isn't in the firmware, although I'm not sure. Your best bet would be to use QuickTime Pro (or another video processing tool) to create a separate audio track with no video content.

By: GrumpyMonkey

GrumpyMonkey — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:49:57 -0800

jjg - the problem is that i do not want to have to hack my ipod to get the videos to work, there seems to be a lot of potential for frying it.

mathowie - sadly, that does not seem to work for me.

Thanks for the suggestions, I will try to extract the audio I guess like.

By: Davidicus

Davidicus — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:56:02 -0800

Try adding 'Podcasts' to the main menu, and selecting the video postcast from there. When i do that on my Video iPod, i get just the audio. To play the video i have to select Videos->Video Podcasts.

By: Davidicus

Davidicus — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:57:09 -0800

Davidicus: "Try adding 'Podcasts' to the main menu, and selecting the video postcast from there. When i do that on my Video iPod, i get just the audio. To play the video i have to select Videos->Video Podcasts."
Uh, assuming that you can get the videos on there in the first place, i must have missed the Nano part on my first readthrough.