HowTo: Encode Video for iPod Video

[endersshadow]

Okay, just would like to say:

Woot. Not my fault!

[Edward The Bonobo]

I had a problem with the Make on the HowTo. See this thread, where I've pasted what I got in my terminal. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=127542

Can anyone help? (In relative newbie language, I'm afraid)

[Vincent_Lin]

Count me in for the video stop and then audio cut off victim.

Reverting back to iPod software 1.0 from CD (I have to use a Windows PC to do so) brings my iPod back to the whole glory. Unfortunately that I have to do restore instead of Update options, since update option is greyed out. No matter, transferring files "only" took about 2 hours. I had 19Gig music, 15 Gig photos, and 8 Gig .mov files, and growing and growing.

Anyhow, thanks to all, especially Endersshadow for this wonderful Howto and scripts.

I am watching Cats, the DVD which I purchased back in 1998, encoded by this wonderful scripts and put onto my iPod video.

A very happy ubuntu user,

Vincent Lin

BTW, specifying -aspect 16x9 in ffmpeg does encode those wide-screen clips into a better looking .mov file. Thanks. Can't say more about Thanks.

[KingOfNowhere]

hey, endersshadow, great guide.

just one question, when i encode videos with ipodvidenc i cannot move forward/backward though the playback on my ipod. what would you recommend to fix this?

[endersshadow]

hey, endersshadow, great guide.

just one question, when i encode videos with ipodvidenc i cannot move forward/backward though the playback on my ipod. what would you recommend to fix this?

In gtkpod, you need to edit the metadata (right click on the video, and select properties) and manually enter in the length (in minutes:seconds, so if you had a clip 2 hours, 28 minutes, 32 seconds, it would be 148:32 instead of 2:28:32). This is only because gtkpod is not able to pull the metadata from any video file, and one of the things that the devel of it is working very hard on doing.

[chronusdark]

is there anyway to modify this script to do batch reencodings (ie all the video files in a directory at once)

also i was wondering about reencoding ogg and mkv with dual audio for ipod...(selecting only the english audio track)

thanks

[endersshadow]

is there anyway to modify this script to do batch reencodings (ie all the video files in a directory at once)

also i was wondering about reencoding ogg and mkv with dual audio for ipod...(selecting only the english audio track)

thanks

Other than making a for loop, I'm not sure about the first.

As for the second, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but it's late...however, you may need to hack the script or run a custom command...

[endersshadow]

Introducing...VIVE - the cohesive GUI for encoding videos for the iPod Video!!! I've attached a screenshot, and I've updated the main post...it took a lot of work, and my eyes are about to fall out, but it's finally ready for release

[beaucollins]

I just tried to install and I get this (there's a syntax error or something):

beau@optimus:~/ipodvidenc$ ./install
mpeg4ip-libs_1.2.5+cvs20050126.20-0.0_i386.deb
gtkpod-0.99.2
gtkpod-0.99.2.tar.gz
cat: /home/beau/.ipodvidenc/install/ffmpeg-*/debian/rules: No such file or directory
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release.gpg [189B]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/multiverse Sources
Fetched 4B in 1s (2B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
vobcopy is already the newest version.
cpdvd is already the newest version.
ogmtools is already the newest version.
build-essential is already the newest version.
make is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
./install: line 153: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
./install: line 153: ` else'

[endersshadow]

Lines 146-156 of the install file should read as follows:

		if make; then
			if sudo make install; then
				echo "ffmpeg installed correctly."
			else
				echo "ffmpeg not configured correctly."
				exit 1
			fi
		else
			echo "ffmpeg not configured correctly."
			exit 1
		fi

What do you have?