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
