Comments on: Converting video to play on your iPod with FFmpeg http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/ Fragmenting reality. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:42:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: geekness » Blog Archive » Bookmarks von 10.09.07 bis 16.10.07 http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-67415 geekness » Blog Archive » Bookmarks von 10.09.07 bis 16.10.07 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:17:33 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-67415 [...] How to convert Video to iPod - [...] [...] How to convert Video to iPod – [...]

]]> By: Dryice Liu’s Blog - converting video to IPod http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-60956 Dryice Liu’s Blog - converting video to IPod Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:22:24 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-60956 [...] Atomized » Blog Archive » Converting video to play on your iPod with FFmpeg [...] [...] Atomized » Blog Archive » Converting video to play on your iPod with FFmpeg [...]

]]> By: Cirus http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-39431 Cirus Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:04:06 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-39431 Hi, I am not able to use GSM file with ffmpeg on linux. ffmpeg is saying "Unknown Format". Any idea why i am getting this? Hi,

I am not able to use GSM file with ffmpeg on linux. ffmpeg is saying “Unknown Format”. Any idea why i am getting this?

]]> By: Brains http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-32615 Brains Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:05:16 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-32615 If you can't figure out what ffmpeg is on your own, you'll never get this to work. If you can’t figure out what ffmpeg is on your own, you’ll never get this to work.

]]> By: ada http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-31808 ada Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:05:19 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-31808 what is FFmpeg? what is FFmpeg?

]]> By: Junkyard » Blog Archive » ipod in linux…. http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-26408 Junkyard » Blog Archive » ipod in linux…. Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:19:26 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-26408 [...] I found this site. The command (slightly modified, see below): [...] [...] I found this site. The command (slightly modified, see below): [...]

]]> By: Sean http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-3425 Sean Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:20:52 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-3425 Louis' command line worked like a charm for me! The Tick is playing on my ipod right now, copied there by the cvs build of gtkpod. Louis’ command line worked like a charm for me! The Tick is playing on my ipod right now, copied there by the cvs build of gtkpod.

]]> By: Louis http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-2970 Louis Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:24:40 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-2970 Thought it might help to post my command. It overcomes the no indexing errors by using the moeg4 instead of xvid codec. I can seek fine in the videos, though I may have a newer gtkpod version (0.99.4). ffmpeg -i input.avi -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -maxrate 2000 -b 1500 -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -g 300 -acodec aac -ar 44100 -ab 128 -s 320x180 - aspect 16:9 output.mp4 This is for widescreen. For regular, change the resolution to 320x240, and aspect to 3:4. Also, you can change the q values and bitrates to your liking. I am running ffmpeg version 0.4.9 with aac and xvid compiled in on a gentoo system. Here are my use flags/version: ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051216 USE="a52 aac encode ieee1394 imlib mmx network ogg oss sdl theora threads truetype v4l vorbis xvid zlib -debug -doc -dts -test Hope this helps someone. Thought it might help to post my command. It overcomes the no indexing errors by using the moeg4 instead of xvid codec. I can seek fine in the videos, though I may have a newer gtkpod version (0.99.4).

ffmpeg -i input.avi -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -maxrate 2000 -b 1500
-qmin 3 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -g 300 -acodec aac -ar 44100 -ab 128 -s 320×180 -
aspect 16:9 output.mp4

This is for widescreen. For regular, change the resolution to 320×240, and aspect to 3:4.
Also, you can change the q values and bitrates to your liking.

I am running ffmpeg version 0.4.9 with aac and xvid compiled in on a gentoo system.
Here are my use flags/version:
ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051216 USE=”a52 aac encode ieee1394 imlib mmx network ogg oss sdl theora threads truetype v4l vorbis xvid zlib -debug -doc -dts -test

Hope this helps someone.

]]> By: compn http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-2611 compn Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:20:31 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-2611 build mencoder with faac support for -oac faac aka aac encoding support. build mencoder with faac support for -oac faac aka aac encoding support.

]]> By: Carlos http://atomized.org/2005/11/converting-video-to-play-on-your-ipod-with-ffmpeg/comment-page-1/#comment-1222 Carlos Thu, 18 May 2006 06:34:53 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=118#comment-1222 I found a way to seek through videos encoded with ffmpeg and imported with gtkpod. The solution is quite easy. When I was investigating what the problem could be, I thought the problem was in how ffmpeg dealt with the video's metadata. But the problem was in gtkpod. When you import a video with gtkpod, click on edit details in the video you just added. In the field "length" write the actual length of the video. The next time you play the video you will be able to seek through it. When you import videos with iTunes it takes care of extracting the metadata of the video; gtkpod doesn't. The ipod, therefore, doesn't know where the video ends: you have to tell it. I hope this can help people rid off the frustration (such as the one I had). I found a way to seek through videos encoded with ffmpeg and imported with gtkpod. The solution is quite easy.
When I was investigating what the problem could be, I thought the problem was in how ffmpeg dealt with the video’s metadata. But the problem was in gtkpod.
When you import a video with gtkpod, click on edit details in the video you just added. In the field “length” write the actual length of the video. The next time you play the video you will be able to seek through it.
When you import videos with iTunes it takes care of extracting the metadata of the video; gtkpod doesn’t. The ipod, therefore, doesn’t know where the video ends: you have to tell it.

I hope this can help people rid off the frustration (such as the one I had).

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