Converting Videos for the iPod Video

Posted by Motoma

Soon after buying my Video iPod, I wanted to put my massive library of videos onto it, so I could watch them on long trips without carrying along my entire laptop. I wrote a small shell script to perform the mundane task of converting for me, using the free, open-source tool ffmpeg (<a href="http://ffmpeg.org">http://ffmpeg.org</a>;).

Shell Script for iPod Video Conversion:

#!/bin/bash # video2ipod conversion script # Christopher Gilbert # September 26, 2006 # # Usage: # video2ipod infile outfile

if [ -z "$2" ]; then echo $0 "infile outfile" else echo "ffmpeg -i `pwd`/$1 -f mp4 -s 320x240 `pwd`/$2" ffmpeg -i "`pwd`/$1" -f mp4 -s 320x240 "`pwd`/$2" fi

After copying this to a file, you must give the script execute permissions: $ chmod +x video2ipod

To run the script, you supply it with a file to convert, as well as the desired output file: $ video2ipod Chemical_Brothers_-_Believe.wmv Chemical_Brothers_-_Believe.mp4

Voila! Your video is ready to be loaded onto your iPod!

Hope this helps, Motoma

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