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) Andrew
