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Re: ipod nano video on linux
(1) The iPhone and iPod Touches do *NOT* expose a mass storage device at all
(2) The iTunesDB file on the 6th generation has another hash field that must be updated else the DB gets rejected.
(3) See the GTKPOD section of »https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Portab···s/iPhone
This new release of gtkpod apparently is required for the iTunesDB hash field to be generated
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| this is an ipod nano, not a touch or an iphone..
The hash part is fine, I checked the XML file on the exported mass storage file-system. It isn't a problem of files getting loaded but not getting indexed (which would be the hash getting set incorrectly), it is that gtkpod doesn't work with video files (refuses to deal with the mp4/m4v file) and amarok doesn't even have the concept of video. |
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1 edit | In case anyone else finds this topic, here is what I've done so far.
1. Despite the gtkpod being updated for video support at the end of 2005 .. ( see »www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/initial-···-libgpod ) the ubuntu gtkpod and gtkpod-aac programs do not understand video, and give a message normally associated with gtkpod being told to deal with an AAC file.
2. gtkpod is a bear to re-build manually from a normal ubuntu install. I had to google each configure failure to identify the missing packages. Several pulled in whole rafts of others. Here is the minimum path:
At this point you have a gtkpod that can handle m4v files.. at least the ones I am making using handbrakeCLI (there is no gui version of handbrake for linux, only windows and OSX). A guide to using handbrakeCLI is here »handbrake.m0k.org/trac/wiki/CLIGuide
I just set the width, height, encoding bit-rate, set two-pass. Converted the "longest title" of my DVD (another flag). mp4 is implied by an output file extension of .mp4, and I selected AAC as the audio with a bitrate of 128.
HandbrakeCLI pauses after two passes and looks like it hangs, but it eventually completes. This 40 whatever minute 200mb file paused for about 10 minutes at the end showing 0.0% complete, after about 30 minutes of processing (this is a slow laptop).
mp4info comes from the libmp4v2 library util directory, so a first check is that it can grok your video file..
plays great, appears in Video menu of ipod correctly.
Whew.
Now correct me if I'm wrong here but I think only the geekiest of ubuntu users are going to go through this to get their christmas ipod up and running under linux. |
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