[MPlayer-users] mencoder parameters for iPod

[Rolf Ernst]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Andrew Daviel <advax at triumf.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Rolf Ernst wrote:
>
>
>> -mc 0 -af volnorm -vf scale=320:-2,expand=:240:::,crop=320:240,harddup
>> -srate 44100 -ofps 25 -oac faac -faacopts br=160:mpeg=4:object=2 -ovc x264
>> -ffourcc H264 -x264encopts
>>
>> bitrate=512:level_idc=13:nocabac:no8x8dct:ref=2:me=umh:bframes=0:subq=6:trellis=0
>>
>
> Thanks. Had to rebuild mencoder with faac and x264, though I had playback
> support in mplayer already.
>
> Transcoded with those parameters, my clip plays in mplayer but doesn't work
> on the iPod. At least, I can't seem to add it to the library in iTunes on XP
> - it has no thumbnail, and when I select it and click "open" it doesn't
> appear in the library. I may just have done something stupid - I copied
> various files earlier which play in iTunes but not on the iPod itself.
> Including one movie trailer from a website that said it had files for iPods.
>
> The player is I believe a 5th generation 8Gb iPod Nano (with camera).
> I tried gtkpod to try and load directly from Linux, but AFAIK that only
> supports as far as the 4th generation. I think Apple may have changed the
> database from iTunesDB to iTunesCDB, and gtkpod/gnupod fail to load it.
>
> (I also tried the thinliquidfilm converterin Python, which uses FFMpeg but
> totally fails to understand any of my movies. I guess I am missing stuff)
>

Sorry, Andrew, that was the only reference info I had. It did not
distinguish between player generations so that may have been dubious
already. I don't have the device myself but the players I have are all very
sensitive about which parameters are used in encoding.

/re