Leopard OS is also a built in file converter?

Is leopard a built in file converter?

One day my friend (A Mac Book Pro Owner with leopard as OS) showed me something pretty amazing he found out. He grabbed a image file --JPEG-- and he chose the rename option. Lets say it was named "ball.jpg" he changed it into "ball.png". The image type was changed into png.

We tried to do this with a video file. We tried an "avi" file and we renamed it into a "MP4". It worked.

Looks like Leopard does this itself. But is it that my friend is using an application to trick me? Is leopard really a file type converter? Stay tunned to the replies to find out?

I'm sorry if this is not the correct section to place the thread btw.

#489356

No it isn't, it's just that it gets the type from the extesion is fresent, but many programs read the type from the file, not rom the extension

#489359

Ok, so if I grab a Avi file and change it into an Mp4 my ipod wont read it?

#490243

Nope. You need to reencode it (iSquint is what I use)

#490248