This happened to me, too. I thought the iPhone was all-of-a-sudden-important-feature-limited. Then I kept playing with it and found my podcast in the video section.

Glad I'm not the only one to have freaked out about this!

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The regular iPod works the same way (at least mine did) If I went to Podcasts, I could listen to the audio from a video podcast. I had to go to Video Podcasts to actually see it. It's nice to have both options.

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I consider this more an annoyance/bug than a 'feature'. I don't know how many times I've instinctively gone to "Podcasts" to play a video podcast only to have the iPod stall for a good 10-15 seconds and only play the audio, then stall again when I try to back out and play the video properly (perhaps the processor is slower on the 5/5.5G video iPods).

Ideally, if you go to Podcasts>A_Video_Podcast, the OS should be smart enough to know you've chosen a video podcast and play it as a video accordingly. If Apple wants to include a "play audio only" feature, then there should be an explicit "play audio only" option. The implied method as described in the hint is counter-intuitive.

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This is an old "feature" of all the video iPods I've owned. While I can see some utility in playing only the audio of a video podcast, there should be some other way of doing that. You should not have to go through "Videos" to actually see video podcasts.

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Now I just have to figure out what this "exercise" thing he mentioned is all about.

Forget about it -- it's overrated.

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