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wirenik

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 134

Encoding video for iPod [SOLVED]

Hey Archers, I have a couple of video files I want to play on my 80GB iPod Classic. I've tried a bunch of different ffmpeg commands, conversion scripts like pypodconv or ipodvidenc, and GUI's like WinFF and ThinLiquidFilm, but there's always one problem or another that prevents them from doing their job. Unrecognized ffmpeg parameters mostly, it seems. Does anyone know of a way to do this which works?

Last edited by wirenik (2008-11-09 04:51:28)

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Navi

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 10

Re: Encoding video for iPod [SOLVED]

ffmpeg -i <file> -vcodec mpeg4(or libx264) -b 700k -acodec libfaac -ab 192k -s 320x240 -aspect 4:3 outfile.mp4

wirenik

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 134

Re: Encoding video for iPod [SOLVED]

ffmpeg -i <file> -vcodec mpeg4(or libx264) -b 700k -acodec libfaac -ab 192k -s 320x240 -aspect 4:3 outfile.mp4

Thanks a million, it works perfectly. I owe you one.

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moljac024: No one really knows what happens inside /dev/null... it could be a gateway to another universe....
dunc: If it is, the people who live there must be getting pretty annoyed by now with all the junk we send them.

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Encoding video for iPod [SOLVED]

I also wrote a wiki page for this many months ago... http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … o_for_iPod so maybe add that there.

Last edited by iphitus (2008-11-09 12:11:22)