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Convert video to iPod format

I would like to put some video that I have on my iPod and I first need to convert it to an iPod format. The only iPod experience that I have is with music, I have zilch with video...

I went to this site and followed the steps that they laid out but when I try to run the conversion I get this error:

Code:

Unknown codec 'libxvid'

There is a lot of other output that I can post, but this seems to be the most ominous.

Anyone have any thoughts? Any other applications to run the conversion that anyone may recommend?

Thanks,
Todd

I do this from command line using a product called ffmpeg (which is pretty widely available).

This is what I hope is a working version of the command I have used.

Quote:

ffmpeg -i input_file -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x180 -title something_here output.mp4

Thanks for the quick response, I will give that a try. Do you know if there is a Linux app for getting the video on the iPod or am I stuck with booting into Windows for that?

Thanks,
Todd

I use iTunes on Windows personally

itunes for linux

amarok works well for me

Regards
JKZfixme

here is a pretty useful article I found on the topic

Regards
JKZfixme

I use Amarok for audio, can you also sync video with it?

I am trying to run the script that you supplied but I am getting this error:

Code:

input_file: I/O error occured

Usually that means that input file is truncated and/or corrupted.

I run it on a number of different videos that I know are OK, or at least they play fine, but I keep getting the same result. They are all .avi files.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for all of the help,
Todd

Works for me from an avi. Can you post the exact command line you were using, plus full output

The command that I am using is:

Code:

ffmpeg -i input_file -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x180 -title master_and_commander.avi master_and_commander_ipod.mp4

And the output is:

Code:

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.

  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr

  libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0

  libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0

  libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0

  built on Jul 23 2008 22:38:24, gcc: 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)

input_file: I/O error occured

Usually that means that input file is truncated and/or corrupted.

I appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Todd

Quote:

Originally Posted by leupi (Post 3245856)

The command that I am using is:

Code:

ffmpeg -i input_file -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x180 -title master_and_commander.avi master_and_commander_ipod.mp4

Todd

Looks pretty obvious.. you didn't put the input filename in the input position of the command...
There is no video file called input_file so the system thinks the file is damaged.

Code:

ffmpeg -i master_and_commander.avi -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x180 -title  master_and_commander_ipod.mp4

and for your original question you could simply install the libxvid codec..

Code:

user@it-etch:~/$ aptitude search libxvid

v  libxvidcore                                                      -                                                                            

v  libxvidcore-dev                                                  -                                                                            

i A libxvidcore4                                                     - High quality ISO MPEG4 codec library                                      

p  libxvidcore4-dev                                                - High quality ISO MPEG4 codec library -- development files                



user@it-etch:~/$ sudo apt-get install libxvidcore4

I certainly did misread where to put the input filename, thanks for pointing that out.

Now when I run the script I get the following error:

Code:

Unknown codec 'libfaac'

I run:

Code:

aptitude search libfaac

and get:

Code:

p  libfaac-dev        - an AAC audio encoder - devel files                          

i A libfaac0            - an AAC audio encoder - library files

So then I run:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libfaac0

And I get back:

Code:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

libfaac0 is already the newest version.

libfaac0 set to manually installed.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

The same thing happened with libxvidcore4, it is showing as already installed yet I am still getting the error:

Code:

Unknown codec 'libxvid'

and

Code:

Unknown codec 'libfaac'

Thanks again for your help,
Todd

What's the output of

ffmpeg -formats

There was an awful lot of output:

Code:

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.

  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr

  libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0

  libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0

  libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0

  built on Jul 23 2008 22:38:24, gcc: 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)

File formats:

  E 3g2            3gp2 format

  E 3gp            3gp format

 D  4xm            4X Technologies format

 D  MTV            MTV format

 D  RoQ            Id RoQ format

 D  aac            ADTS AAC

 DE ac3            raw ac3

  E adts            ADTS AAC

 DE aiff            Audio IFF

 DE alaw            pcm A law format

 DE amr            3gpp amr file format

 DE asf            asf format

  E asf_stream      asf format

 DE au              SUN AU Format

 DE audio_device    audio grab and output

 DE avi            avi format

 D  avs            avs format

  E crc            crc testing format

 D  daud            D-Cinema audio format

 D  dc1394          dc1394 A/V grab

 D  dsicin          Delphine Software International CIN format

 D  dts            raw dts

 DE dv              DV video format

 D  dv1394          dv1394 A/V grab

  E dvd            MPEG2 PS format (DVD VOB)

 D  ea              Electronic Arts Multimedia Format

 DE ffm            ffm format

 D  film_cpk        Sega FILM/CPK format

 DE flac            raw flac

 D  flic            FLI/FLC/FLX animation format

 DE flv            flv format

  E framecrc        framecrc testing format

 DE gif            GIF Animation

 DE gxf            GXF format

 DE h261            raw h261

 DE h263            raw h263

 DE h264            raw H264 video format

 D  idcin          Id CIN format

 DE image2          image2 sequence

 DE image2pipe      piped image2 sequence

 D  ingenient      Ingenient MJPEG

 D  ipmovie        Interplay MVE format

 DE m4v            raw MPEG4 video format

 D  matroska        Matroska file format

 DE mjpeg          MJPEG video

 D  mm              American Laser Games MM format

 DE mmf            mmf format

  E mov            mov format

 D  mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG4/Motion JPEG 2000 format

  E mp2            MPEG audio layer 2

 DE mp3            MPEG audio layer 3

  E mp4            mp4 format

 D  mpc            musepack

 DE mpeg            MPEG1 System format

  E mpeg1video      MPEG video

  E mpeg2video      MPEG2 video

 DE mpegts          MPEG2 transport stream format

 D  mpegvideo      MPEG video

  E mpjpeg          Mime multipart JPEG format

 DE mulaw          pcm mu law format

 D  mxf            MXF format

 D  nsv            NullSoft Video format

  E null            null video format

 D  nut            nut format

 D  nuv            NuppelVideo format

 DE ogg            Ogg format

  E psp            psp mp4 format

 D  psxstr          Sony Playstation STR format

 DE rawvideo        raw video format

 D  redir          Redirector format

 DE rm              rm format

  E rtp            RTP output format

 D  rtsp            RTSP input format

 DE s16be          pcm signed 16 bit big endian format

 DE s16le          pcm signed 16 bit little endian format

 DE s8              pcm signed 8 bit format

 D  sdp            SDP

 D  shn            raw shorten

 D  smk            Smacker Video

 D  sol            Sierra SOL Format

  E svcd            MPEG2 PS format (VOB)

 DE swf            Flash format

 D  tiertexseq      Tiertex Limited SEQ format

 D  tta            true-audio

 DE u16be          pcm unsigned 16 bit big endian format

 DE u16le          pcm unsigned 16 bit little endian format

 DE u8              pcm unsigned 8 bit format

 D  vc1            raw vc1

  E vcd            MPEG1 System format (VCD)

 D  video4linux    video grab

 D  video4linux2    video grab

 D  vmd            Sierra VMD format

  E vob            MPEG2 PS format (VOB)

 DE voc            Creative Voice File format

 DE wav            wav format

 D  wc3movie        Wing Commander III movie format

 D  wsaud          Westwood Studios audio format

 D  wsvqa          Westwood Studios VQA format

 D  wv              WavPack

 DE yuv4mpegpipe    YUV4MPEG pipe format



Codecs:

 D V    4xm

 D V D  8bps

 D V    VMware video

 D V D  aasc

  EA    ac3

 DEA    adpcm_4xm

 DEA    adpcm_adx

 DEA    adpcm_ct

 DEA    adpcm_ea

 DEA    adpcm_ima_dk3

 DEA    adpcm_ima_dk4

 DEA    adpcm_ima_qt

 DEA    adpcm_ima_smjpeg

 DEA    adpcm_ima_wav

 DEA    adpcm_ima_ws

 DEA    adpcm_ms

 DEA    adpcm_sbpro_2

 DEA    adpcm_sbpro_3

 DEA    adpcm_sbpro_4

 DEA    adpcm_swf

 DEA    adpcm_xa

 DEA    adpcm_yamaha

 D A    alac

 DEV D  asv1

 DEV D  asv2

 D V D  avs

 DEV    bmp

 D V D  camstudio

 D V D  camtasia

 D V D  cavs

 D V D  cinepak

 D V D  cljr

 D A    cook

 D V D  cyuv

 D A    dca

 D A    dsicinaudio

 D V D  dsicinvideo

 DES    dvbsub

 DES    dvdsub

 DEV D  dvvideo

 DEV D  ffv1

 DEVSD  ffvhuff

 DEA    flac

 DEV D  flashsv

 D V D  flic

 DEVSD  flv

 D V D  fraps

 DEA    g726

 DEV    gif

 DEA    gsm

 D A    gsm_ms

 DEV D  h261

 DEVSDT h263

 D VSD  h263i

  EV    h263p

 D V DT h264

 DEVSD  huffyuv

 D V D  idcinvideo

 D A    imc

 D V D  indeo2

 D V    indeo3

 D A    interplay_dpcm

 D V D  interplayvideo

  EV    jpegls

 D V    kmvc

  EV    libtheora

  EV    ljpeg

 D V D  loco

 D A    mace3

 D A    mace6

 D V D  mdec

 DEV D  mjpeg

 D V D  mjpegb

 D V D  mmvideo

 DEA    mp2

 D A    mp3

 D A    mp3adu

 D A    mp3on4

 D A    mpc sv7

 DEVSDT mpeg1video

 DEVSDT mpeg2video

 DEVSDT mpeg4

 D VSDT mpegvideo

 DEVSD  msmpeg4

 DEVSD  msmpeg4v1

 DEVSD  msmpeg4v2

 D V D  msrle

 D V D  msvideo1

 D V D  mszh

 D V D  nuv

 DEV    pam

 DEV    pbm

 DEA    pcm_alaw

 DEA    pcm_mulaw

 DEA    pcm_s16be

 DEA    pcm_s16le

 DEA    pcm_s24be

 DEA    pcm_s24daud

 DEA    pcm_s24le

 DEA    pcm_s32be

 DEA    pcm_s32le

 DEA    pcm_s8

 DEA    pcm_u16be

 DEA    pcm_u16le

 DEA    pcm_u24be

 DEA    pcm_u24le

 DEA    pcm_u32be

 DEA    pcm_u32le

 DEA    pcm_u8

 DEV    pgm

 DEV    pgmyuv

 DEV    png

 DEV    ppm

 D A    qdm2

 D V D  qdraw

 D V D  qpeg

 D V D  qtrle

 DEV    rawvideo

 D A    real_144

 D A    real_288

 D A    roq_dpcm

 D V D  roqvideo

 D V D  rpza

 DEV D  rv10

 DEV D  rv20

 D A    shorten

 D A    smackaud

 D V    smackvid

 D V D  smc

 DEV    snow

 D A    sol_dpcm

 DEA    sonic

  EA    sonicls

 D V D  sp5x

 DEV D  svq1

 D VSD  svq3

 D V    targa

 D V    theora

 D V D  tiertexseqvideo

 D V    tiff

 D V D  truemotion1

 D V D  truemotion2

 D A    truespeech

 D A    tta

 D V D  ultimotion

 D V    vc1

 D V D  vcr1

 D A    vmdaudio

 D V D  vmdvideo

 DEA    vorbis

 D V    vp3

 D V    vp5

 D V    vp6

 D V    vp6f

 D V D  vqavideo

 D A    wavpack

 DEA    wmav1

 DEA    wmav2

 DEVSD  wmv1

 DEVSD  wmv2

 D V    wmv3

 D V D  wnv1

 D A    ws_snd1

 D A    xan_dpcm

 D V D  xan_wc3

 D V D  xl

 DEV D  zlib

 DEV    zmbv



Supported file protocols:

 file: pipe: udp: rtp: tcp: http:

Frame size, frame rate abbreviations:

 ntsc pal qntsc qpal sntsc spal film ntsc-film sqcif qcif cif 4cif

Motion estimation methods:

 zero(fastest) full(slowest) log phods epzs(default) x1 hex umh iter



Note, the names of encoders and decoders dont always match, so there are

several cases where the above table shows encoder only or decoder only entries

even though both encoding and decoding are supported for example, the h263

decoder corresponds to the h263 and h263p encoders, for file formats its even

worse

I did not see any obvious errors.

Thanks,
Todd

Try "-acodec aac" in place of "-acodec libfaac"

Ditto for xvid