On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Stroller <stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote: > > On 5 Feb 2010, at 12:02, Andrew Daviel wrote: > >> ... >> >> I found "-lavfopts format=ipod" in the mencoder manpage, so my command >> looked like >> $ mencoder -of lavf -lavfopts format=ipod -oac faac -ovc x264 foobar.avi >> -o foobar.m4v >> (plus other options you suggest) >> iTunes silently refuses to add the result to the library, so I don't >> actually know if it will play on the hardware since I have no way of getting >> it there. Quicktime player won't play it, saying "an invalid sample >> description was found". >> > > Have you tired "-o foobar.mp4" ? > > If this allows you to add to iTunes, but not play on the iPod then I think > this may be related to IDC levels. > > > http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/2008-September/009414.html > > Somewhere in th ebegining of this thread I noted that you have to specify idc level of 3. But apparently that doens't work, either (anymore)? /re
