HowTo: Encode Video for iPod Video

[endersshadow]

Huge news! Vive 2.0.0 has finally been released! Download it here!

Also, an Ubuntu Feisty package has been added. I suggest that you use the Medibuntu repository to meet the dependencies, as the Ubuntu package is compiled to allow DVD usage. Enjoy!

[shanest]

Thanks! This worked brilliantly for me.

There was one glitch where the encoded video of my Garden State DVD was complete garbage, but it's been great besides that. DVD ripping is also very slow for me, but I think it's largely (although not completely) due to my drive which is in the docking station for my X60 tablet.

For other DVDs, it worked great, albeit slow.
And for other video files, it works brilliantly!

Once again, thanks for the great work. For awhile, I was worried I might have to transfer videos in *gasp* Windows

[92bek]

Hey, I'm really looking forward to using Vive 2.0 but I cannot seem to get it up and running. I'm running the ubuntu 64bit version and not sure if there's issues introduced by that. But when I attempt to build from source, I get the following error:

chief@Beefy:~$ tar -zxvf vive-2.0.0.tar.gz 
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Or by the .deb pkg:

chief@Beefy:~$ sudo dpkg -i vive_2.0.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb 
dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in version number in vive_2.0.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing vive_2.0.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vive_2.0.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

I'm sure there's a simple fix, and it might be more OS related than a VIVE issue; but I'm n00b. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

[endersshadow]

92bek: These errors happen when the download wasn't completed correctly. Try redownloading the files and making sure that their sums are okay.

Here's the MD5 sum of the tar.gz and the .deb, respectively:

44ac203364f00e0a8c68e2fc9194442c  vive-2.0.0.tar.gz
830213d2fce8a1b69b4d82a36cc2df2e  vive_2.0.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

You can check them by doing this:

md5sum /path/to/file

[92bek]

Great! Thanks for the advice. I've was able to download the file w/ integrity and successfully unzip the source file to get to the ./configure prompt. Now another n00b question about compiling the source.

I've collected most of the dependencies which worked for a while but have now been stumped on obtaining the "libgnomeui" package. Code:

 
chief@Beefy:~$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
chief@Beefy:~$ ls
Desktop  Examples  vive-2.0.0  vive-2.0.0.tar.gz
chief@Beefy:~$ cd vive-2.0.0/
chief@Beefy:~/vive-2.0.0$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for ffmpeg... yes
checking for vobcopy... yes
checking for mplayer... yes
checking for prefix by checking for ffmpeg... /usr/bin/ffmpeg
checking whether DVD is enabled... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.10.11)
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for libgnome... yes
checking for libgnomeui... configure: error: Package requirements ( libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.0) were not met:

No package 'libgnomeui-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables libgnomeui_CFLAGS
and libgnomeui_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I've researched the forums and there seems to be no similar issue w/ a missing libgnomeui package. I've used the apt-get to install almost all packages labeled "libgnomeui*". Any thoughts on how to install or get the installer to recognize these packages?

Thanks again for the previous help.

[endersshadow]

You'll need to install libgnomeui-dev to compile from source. If you were just using the Debian package, you'd need libgnomeui-0 and libgnomeui-common.

[Sokarul]

I'm having trouble getting the ffmpeg installed first.
The problem is first at

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2-dev libdvdnav-dev libdvdr

Specifically the libdvdcss2-dev because it can't be found. I also tried the other way listed but it didn't work either.
I am using the 64 bit ubuntu so it may bot matter since Vive seems to only be for i386 which is 32 bit? Correct?

[endersshadow]

I built it on an i386, and Sourceforge's compile farm is now dead and buried so I can't compile it on x64. Assumedly, the code works if built by a 64-bit gcc. Medibuntu definitely has the x64 version of libdvdcss2. Do you have Medibuntu in your /etc/apt/sources.list file?

[Sokarul]

I think I set it up right now, and then I was able to get libdvdcss2 to install.

[ibelwich]

Hey All,

Firstly big thanks for the howto especially useful for a linux newbie like myself.

I installed vive 2.0 (Great App) and ran into a couple of hiccups got those all sorted and can rip and encode dvd's no problem.

However when i transfer them to my ipod using gtkpod , they never play i simply get a black screen fro 30 seconds and then it returns to the menu. I tried installing gpac and remuxxed the video but now gtkpod does not recognise it.

Any ideas on how to resolve this? is something extra I need to download to update gtkpod?

Many thanks