Video + Audio = Happy Me

OK so I don’t have a video iPod - I use my iPod to either listen to music (becoming less frequent since my podcast listening increased) or to listen to podcasts while I’m doing other things - thus maximising my ’spare’ time.

In fact if this or any of the posts you might of read this evening have been a bit shoddy it’s because I’m catching up on Leo Laporte’s brililant KFI Tech Guy podcast while typing.

Anyway I’m straying - where was I? Oh yeah the video iPod.

I’ve avoided getting a video iPod because the Nano does what I need it to do - hold a few hours worth of music and a few hours worth of podcasts to fill the silent void while walking to work, walking to get lunch - even just walking up the stairs.

Which is why I don’t download video podcasts - or at least I didn’t until all this fuss about Rocketboom, I downloaded tonights Rocketboom to see what this British girl was like.

Unfortunately when it had downloaded and I clicked on it to listen in all I got was the picture and no sound - I might as well have been looking at Amanda Congdon.

I had downloaded a Rocketboom episode before it all kicked off and it was a pleasant break for a couple of minutes while waiting for the publishing system at work to be restarted - she’s pretty, quicky and well…. fun.

The new girl, Joanne Colan, seems to be (with the sound out) more or less the same person - sharing similar manarisms, a similar body type and general persona.

I decided I had to get the ‘video sound problem’ sorted - first step should really have been help but as I’m a man the first step was a big mallet.

Actually the first step was to load Quicktime and see if it worked in Quicktime outside of iTunes - same problem so I played with various settings to see if that worked - nothing.

So to test whether it was a sound card problem (all other sound things work fine) I loaded it into VLC and it worked without a problem - but that doesn’t really help as, if I intend to subsribe to it, I’ll want to watch it in iTunes.

Oh and when I did watch Joanne with the sound up she is very different to Amanda, I think she’s great but as a Brit myself, I don’t think her accent suits that style - I think she could do wonders with the role but it might need a bit of a tweek first.
Back to the story - This is where I finally admitted I was lost and agreed to ask for directions - a quick Google for “no sound in iTunes for Video Podcasts”, a few stupid clicks, a few browser back clicks, another click to Apple, another search for “no sound with video podcast” and I find out that the only way to sort it is to find a mirror for an older iTunes/Quicktime and roll back.

Apparently it looks like the latest version of iTunes and Quicktime (on the PC) stuff up when playing video and don’t play the sound.

I haven’t tried it with anything that isn’t a video podcast as I don’t have any video that isn’t a video podcast to try it with, but according to the Apple Forums it happens with any video including music videos brought from the iTunes music store - which is nice!

I can’t be arsed to roll back so I’m going to leave off the Video Podcasts until Apple release the next version of iTunes and hope that works.

Love and Turnips

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