What is the actual resolution of an iPod screen?

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Leo
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What is the actual resolution of an iPod screen?

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Hi I thought it was 320x240, but I saw dynaflash wrote:
you should be able to get pretty nice iPod only output using 360 x (xxx) the native iPod screen width. I would try one at 900-1000 at 360 width instead of 368 and see what you get. 368 would be a less than ideal size for the iPod to downscale to 360.
Is this right? Also, is it OK to use non-modulo-16 numbers with iPod? I have a 5.5 generation iPod 80GB.

So I'm best to encode movies at 360xwhatever for iPod viewing? Does it therefore have exactly 270 lines?

thanks
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Re: What is the actual resolution of an iPod screen?

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Leo wrote:Hi I thought it was 320x240, but I saw dynaflash wrote:
you should be able to get pretty nice iPod only output using 360 x (xxx) the native iPod screen width. I would try one at 900-1000 at 360 width instead of 368 and see what you get. 368 would be a less than ideal size for the iPod to downscale to 360.
Is this right? Also, is it OK to use non-modulo-16 numbers with iPod? I have a 5.5 generation iPod 80GB.

So I'm best to encode movies at 360xwhatever for iPod viewing? Does it therefore have exactly 270 lines?

thanks
My bad, you are right 320 x 240 is the native screen size. I apologize for the misinformation.
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