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So I was p[laying around with the ipod as well as the AVIC last night and discovered how to get the best image on the avic screen using handbrake. Encode the video with the MAX vertical resolution that your iPode will output. Disable Widescreen on the ipod. Widescreen will just put black bars on top and bottom of the image, not transmit a widescreen ready format, since the AVIC doesnt zoom to fill, but stretch to fill. Set the video mode to full. You will now have as close to a 16x9 video displayed on the AVIC screen as possible.

No your Ipod is designed to plug into the back RCA's. The front Jack is for an alternate source

Short of cracking open the unit and making your own wireing harness directly into the screen no. As for the EXT1 and EXT2: EXT2 is the minijack on the front, Its actually an AV input for another video or external device. EXT1 is the RCA's on the back currently occupied by the iPod. If you disable the iPod in setup you will notice that EXT1 now is un greyed.

Thats not a pioneer thing. I work for a large electronics manufacturer. We make several units that interface with the iPod product line and it is actually a limitation on the Apple side of things. The transfer of media digitally, I believe as part of their Digital Rights restrictions. All of our equipment controls over the USB protocol and transfers video and audio over standard line level.

A bit O.T. do you use an apple ipod cable to attach to the AVIC or the pioneer Cable, and what ver iPhone do you have?

All right, I suppose I just got schooled a bit. I was looking at the 5G iPod specs post Firmware 1.2, since that is what I am running. Though that doesn't make sense that apple would do something like that.

The way that resolution reads out is 720x480.etc where 720 is lines across and 480 is lines down. WxH ratio. Yes you would be occuping useless space if you only intended to watch these videos on the ipod alone, but since tou intend to view them on the AVIC this added file size will give you a better image on the in dash screen which is almost 3x higher res than the iPod.

Much better, we now have some direction here. Now for the answers: 1) Yes, H.264 is the best codec to do this 2) You do want to encode at a horizontal scan of 640, Handbrake will adjust the vert lines accordingly and will maintain your source aspect ratio. The AVIC is neither 4:3 nor is it a widescreen. It is a computer resolution of 800x480, which makes things tricky. 3) Encode at the native res, or as close to, of the intended display device. In this case the intended display device is the AVIC. Higherst allowable res, ie 640x?? where ?? doesnt exceed 480 is going to get you the b

P.S. The max video resolution that the iPod is capable of decoding is 640x480, so whenever you are using handbrake use the universal preset and adjust the width to 640. This will give you the best possible image on your AVIC.

Here's some help: 480x272 is the native resolution of the iPod screen and would be ideal for viewing on the iPod, but not for viewing on a larger display. To view on a larger display.... a DV NTSC Display 720x480 would be ideal. Now that the Avic has an 800x480 screen you will be able to display a DV NTSC signal on at at full resolution without any upscaling and if Pioneer did it right no distortion. Unfortunately right now any signal you put into the avic it will stretch to fill full screen so you will get a bit of horizontal distortion. The right way for pioneer to have done it wou

Ok Allow me to explain, I have no Idea where you are getting these numbers. NTSC is 720x480, also known commonly as 480i or 480p. i stands for interlaced and is therefore split into two 240 fields horizontally, whereas p stands for progressive and is one full and uninterlaced field. A far better and superior image for digital displays. Go pick up the manual that came with your cheap sanyo LCD and read about the display resolutions that it will support. Or you can go here: http://www.sonyhdvinfo.com/article.php? ... Definition But if you are too lazy to actually figure it out on y

youre overdriving the amp. check your impedence tolerances of the amp and make sure that your speakers are not lower than that.

Ok so I am all in. What do I look for, has anyone done this? What kind of file should I get, any known working file names? I have an f700 btw.

WRONG!!!! NTSC is 720x480 That is 720 Pixels Wide by 480 Tall Where as HD is in several formats 720p, 1080i and 1080p To get the best image out of your screen 720x480 is the best resolution to digitize to. Your Nintendo, or whatever childish game system that you may be using puts out a TRUE NTSC 720x480 signal, NOT this antiquated 480x272 signal that you talk of, which is almost equivalent to CGA graphic quality (which was used in the 80's, over 20 years ago if you can't do the math). And for the record while you may encode the video at 480x272 the iPod will still up c