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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Converting Video for iPod

For some reason I couldn't find a decent turnkey solution to doing this. Googling found a few GUI's and long mencoder commands, but none were as simple as they should have been.

Anyway, i found two great scripts, which do the job fine, and documented them on the wiki. I figured if it took so long to find them, it's bound to be useful for others.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … o_for_iPod

Last edited by iphitus (2007-09-20 04:18:48)

bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: Converting Video for iPod

I really wish you & I would have the same problems more often. Thanks a lot.

Crazypu

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-02-06

Posts: 70

Re: Converting Video for iPod

Now there is thinliquidfilmin the AUR.... it works fine

sH

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From: Braunschweig, Germany

Registered: 2007-05-02

Posts: 145

Re: Converting Video for iPod

Thinliquidfilm tells me, that my video files are broken or not supported. As a solution for this the website says that ffmpeg must be compiled with xvid and x264 support.
As far as I can see this is the case for the arch package

FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-pp --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-liba52 --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --disable-libamr-nb --enable-pp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-swscaler
  libavutil version: 49.5.0
  libavcodec version: 51.48.0
  libavformat version: 52.1.0

So, what else can be wrong? The videos all play perfectly in totem and mplayer so the codecs should be there...

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Converting Video for iPod

Thinliquidfilm tells me, that my video files are broken or not supported. As a solution for this the website says that ffmpeg must be compiled with xvid and x264 support.
As far as I can see this is the case for the arch package

FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-pp --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-liba52 --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --disable-libamr-nb --enable-pp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-swscaler
  libavutil version: 49.5.0
  libavcodec version: 51.48.0
  libavformat version: 52.1.0

So, what else can be wrong? The videos all play perfectly in totem and mplayer so the codecs should be there...

Run it from the command line post what complaints you get.

If anyone wanted to put together a script, Robert Swain's FFmpeg to I-Pod tutorial is very comprehensive:

http://rob.opendot.cl/index.php/useful- … deo-guide/

Last edited by skottish (2008-04-24 21:47:14)

chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: Converting Video for iPod

I use Avidemux for this iPod encoding job. It has a profile "iPod" integrated and do the job nicely.

It will help you a lot if you want to encode only a part of a movie, or integrate some subtitles and many other things.
What I like is that the interface is simple and allow you to do basic stuff as well as complex encoding stuff.

The wiki also teach you some important concepts about video encoding I never understood before.

A real good "Swiss Army knife" for encoding video.

sH

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From: Braunschweig, Germany

Registered: 2007-05-02

Posts: 145

Re: Converting Video for iPod

[sh@laptop ~]$ thinliquidfilm
[]
ffmpeg supports xvid
ffmpeg does not support h264.  thin liquid film will not be able to read or encode h264 video files.
tab changed
changed to "encode"
/home/sh/.thinliquidfilm/latest
1.0

this is the result from running from the command-line.
Only clue is, that thinliquidfilm website tells to use --enable-h264 as compiler-option while in fact it is called --enable-libx264
Maybe thinliquidfilm excepts another version of ffmpeg?

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: Converting Video for iPod

I use Avidemux for this iPod encoding job. It has a profile "iPod" integrated and do the job nicely.

It will help you a lot if you want to encode only a part of a movie, or integrate some subtitles and many other things.
What I like is that the interface is simple and allow you to do basic stuff as well as complex encoding stuff.

The wiki also teach you some important concepts about video encoding I never understood before.

A real good "Swiss Army knife" for encoding video.

That's a nice tool, thanks for the suggestion.

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Converting Video for iPod

[sh@laptop ~]$ thinliquidfilm
[]
ffmpeg supports xvid
ffmpeg does not support h264.  thin liquid film will not be able to read or encode h264 video files.
tab changed
changed to "encode"
/home/sh/.thinliquidfilm/latest
1.0

this is the result from running from the command-line.
Only clue is, that thinliquidfilm website tells to use --enable-h264 as compiler-option while in fact it is called --enable-libx264
Maybe thinliquidfilm excepts another version of ffmpeg?

--enable-h264 is part of FFmpeg's past now. I don't know how this program is checking for dependencies, but I'd recommend just using one of the other suggestions posted in this tread.

[side_note]I love it when old threads just start rolling again[/side_note]

Last edited by skottish (2008-04-29 04:16:56)