On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 18:43 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: > How can I convert either *.avi or *.vob files to a format that can be > synced to my new iPod Nano -- the wide one? 8 Gb. I have no previous > iPod experience. Then I sync this with Amarok? I have a teacher who > sends everyone in the class *.avi video files and I'd love to play them > back on the Nano. I also want to see if I can copy a James Bond movie > DVD to the iPod and play the movie. ---- this has the basics... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder this is the whole enchilada... http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/06/07/howto-batch-encode-video-for-ipod-under-linux-2007-edition but you have to build gpac manually (at least I had to) and there's a few requisites to getting it built. I actually have modified that script (it's still a bit tacky) to break the DVD's 'chapters' into files because I am doing mostly music DVD's and it's nice to be able to jump from song to song. Feel free to check in with questions. I also wrote a script to do bulk conversions of youtube stuff onto my iPod -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
