Video (.mpg/.avi) to iPod (.mp4) converter

[Peter King]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:23:18PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> The commands were:
> export file=austinpowers.vob
> ffmpeg -i $file -cropleft 4 -cropright 10 -deinterlace -vcodec xvid -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 384 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -acodec aac -ab 96 -g 300 -pass 1 -passlogfile mpg2ipod_log -f mov $file.pass1.mov
> ffmpeg -i $file -cropleft 4 -cropright 10 -deinterlace -vcodec xvid -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 384 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -acodec aac -ab 96 -g 300 -pass 2 -passlogfile mpg2ipod_log -f mov $file.ipod.mov
> rm -f $file.pass1.mov
> 
> I don't have an ipod to test on, so who knows if it is right or not.

I tried these commands -- well, I used a different vob file, but close
enough -- to generate an iPod-playable .mov file. They worked like a
charm with the Debian unstable version of ffmpeg (actually fed in from
ftp.nerim.net), converting a 1GB vobfile to a 150MB quicktime file.

The result plays beautifully on an iPod.

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