One for all?

[davewilson67]

I searched the forums and I didnt see if this was possible (I may have missed it).

In my family we have a mix bundle of portable players, iPhone, Zune (30 gig 1st generation) and a PSP. I am wanting to know if there is one type of format that will be able to play on all three without any secondary encoding (ie from itunes or zune software)?

it seems if I get a good iphone when I transfer to Zune it tries re-encode it and vice versa. I havent put any on my PSPS yet as I just bought it, so any help would be deeply appreciated as I am having multiple copies of every video right now.

[Baldrick]

Does the zune support mp4 with h264 video and aac audio?

[jman98]

Wild guess here as I have none of these devices - Divx? Lots of things support Divx these days.

[davewilson67]

This what I have for what the Zune supports with the need to recompress. I am still newbish, so i am not sure to answer yes or no to your question.

Microsoft Zune player supports WMV, WMA, MP3, AAC natively. You can sync the following movies and music to Zune device directly without any converting process.

Video: WMV (up to 320x240, 1.5Mbps video bitrate, 30fps frame rate; With WMA audio up to 192Kbps audio bitrate, 44.1kHz sample rate)
Audio: WMA, MP3, AAC, M4A, M4b, MP4 (up to 320Kbps bitrate, 48KHz sample rate)

Also, if i cant get one format for all three can i get one format for at least two of them?

[poisondeathray]

I don't think PSP supports .wmv natively, so you're going to have a problem if .wmv is the only video format supported by the Zune.

h.264 video and AAC audio in .mp4 container if you want 2/3 for the PSP & iphone