jdong
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Re: ipod nano video on linux
For posterity. URL to the "updated" gtkpod-aac »https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+sour···buntu1.1
Associated bug report:
»https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc···g/163283
If anyone can try the above gtkpod build and see that it supports AAC as advertised, please comment so on the bug report, I just need two success reports and then this will be a regular system update and nobody will have to suffer this unexpected gtkpod-aac doesn't handle MP4 behavior!
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thanks, then I struck the next minor issue which is that gtkpod doesn't 'eject /media/IPOD', you can add this as a command to ~/.gtkpod/gtkpod.eject (a script) but this fails (as it does from the command line without sudo) because you didn't mount it in the first place, hal (root) did.
so I fixed that by adding the full mount to /etc/fstab (after hal mounts it, do 'mount' to see the filesystem type and options) and added the option "users" to this list.
finally gtkpod pops up when the ipod is attached, and gtkpod ejects the ipod (and underlying mount) when you order it to.
Of course one can use eject from the desktop icon, but that is unsatisfactory to me. |
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*grin* Justin, just for you I'll make sure that in Hardy, gtkpod's eject command will be mapped correctly through HAL to eject the iPod 
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| thanks, but seriously just walk into an apple store and see these things flying off the shelves like candy. (they are boxed like candy as well, or jewelry). I'm betting that most ipod addicts on linux dual boot rather than deal with the learning curve. |
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| said by justin  :thanks, but seriously just walk into an apple store and see these things flying off the shelves like candy. (they are boxed like candy as well, or jewelry). I'm betting that most ipod addicts on linux dual boot rather than deal with the learning curve. You know Justin, my 5th Generation iPod Video worked beautifully under Ubuntu virtually out of the box, minus me writing a video encoder script for it. These new iPhone based firmwares on the Touch is just simply a pain and completely proprietary, it looks like the most straightforward way to upload onto it is to jailbreak it, install an SSH daemon, and use wifi to mount SSHFS.
For now I'm just gonna use my macbook with OS X to manage this Touch. too much trouble to get it working under Linux -- Apple has made it quite clear it is their job to make that as difficult as possible
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