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Re: ipod nano video on linuxIn 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:
apt-get install libmp4v2-dev
apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
apt-get install libglade2-dev
apt-get install libgnomecanvas2-dev
apt-get install flex
apt-get install libid3tag0-dev
apt-get remove gtkpod-aac
(download 'stable' gtkpod source)
(./configure)
(should be clean and pickup libmp4v2 library)
(./install)
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..
mp4info blah.m4v
mp4info version 1.5.0.1
blah.m4v:
Track Type Info
1 video MPEG-4 Simple @ L3, 2867.064 secs, 400 kbps, 320x240 @ 29.970032 fps
2 audio MPEG-4 AAC LC, 2866.967 secs, 128 kbps, 44100 Hz
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. |
