Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video iPod

[Ian]

Thanks for the reply!!!
Do you know how to physically transfer the video to the iPod?
I cant seem to figure out how... I dont think I saw it on the thread...
Thanks again!!
~Ian

On 10/30/05, Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:00:23 +1300
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
> > yes i was reading a threa on the knoppmythwiki last night. I suggest you
> read there.
> >
>
> ooops wrong reference, it was on the knoppmyth forums, specifically
> here:
>
>
> http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6467&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ipod&start=15
>
> basically the author suggests a two pass use of ffmpeg:
>
> # mpg2ipod
> # quick script to transcode to an 5G iPod compatible video file
> # requires recompiling of ffmpeg with xvid, and facc enabled
> # you can tweak any of the crop, bitrate, etc.
> # video size has worked for me up to 480x352
> # this does a 2nd pass because it decreases file size greatly
> # remove this pass to speed things up
> # this was a quick hack, but is works for now
>
> for file in $*
> do
> /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i $file -cropleft 4 -cropright 10 -deinterlace
> -vcodec xvid -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 384 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -acodec aac
> -ab 96 -g 300 -pass 1 -passlogfile mpg2ipod_log -f mov $file.pass1.mov
> /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i $file -cropleft 4 -cropright 10 -deinterlace
> -vcodec xvid -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 384 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -acodec aac
> -ab 96 -g 300 -pass 2 -passlogfile mpg2ipod_log -f mov $file.ipod.mov
> rm -f $file.pass1.mov
> rm -f mpg2ipod_log*
> done
>
>
> basically the video codec can be xvid ox x.264, the audio codec is aac,
> the container format is .m4v, .mp4 or .mov by the looks of it. The other
> specs are in that thread. I do suggest you read the whole thread, as it
> also sets up an RSS service for itunes (so you can just grab new videos
> for the ipod) and the transcoding operations amy have been tweaked (the
> above was the guy's first try, and may have been changed in his later
> posts)
>
> I downloaded a movie made for ipod last night and it played in ffplay,
> so i am guessing that I have ffmpeg compiled with the right options.
> (Not that I have an ipod, I am just nterested in multimedia and
> trancoding)
>
> My ffmpeg use flags are below. I think aac and xvid are the ones that
> are really needed here.
>
> nick@sf ~ $ equery uses ffmpeg
> [ Searching for packages matching ffmpeg... ]
> [ Colour Code : set unset ]
> [ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ]
> [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
> [ Found these USE variables for media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r5 ]
> U I
> + + aac : Enables support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio
> - - altivec : Adds support for optimizations for G4 and G5/ppc970
> processors
> - - debug : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging.
> Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to
> CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too
> + + doc : Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
> + + ieee1394 : Enable FireWire/iLink IEEE1394 support (dv, camera, ...)
> + + a52 : Enables support for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD
> + + encode : Adds support for encoding of audio or video files
> + + imlib : Adds support for media-libs/imlib (Image loading and rendering
> library)
> + + mmx : Adds support for optimizations for Pentium MMX and Athlon class
> processors
> + + ogg : Adds support for the Ogg container format (commonly used by
> Vorbis, Theora and flac)
> + + vorbis : Adds support for the OggVorbis audio codec
> + + oss : Adds support for OSS (Open Sound System)
> - - threads : Adds threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads
> + + truetype : Adds support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts
> + + v4l : Enables video4linux support
> + + xvid : Adds support for xvid.org <http://xvid.org>'s open-source
> mpeg-4 codec
> + + dts : Enables libdts (DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder) support
> + + network : Enables network streaming support
> + + zlib : Adds support for zlib (de)compression
> + + sdl : Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)
>
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Cheers,
Ian