iPod Video -- Success!

[Chris Aitken]

Sorry, Joe, I /do/ have your post. This is about video not audio. Do you 
think this will solve my .mp3/.ogg upload trouble as well? By the way, 
can iPods even play .ogg or do I have to convert all my .ogg's to .mp3's 
via Audacity first? The screenshotas for amarok show .ogg files which 
gives me some hope, however I'm finding it won't "transfer" (or /think/ 
it transfers) files to the iPod unless I convert them to .mp3's.

Chris

JoeHill wrote:
> JoeHill wrote: 
>
>   
>> JoeHill wrote: 
>>
>>     
>>> Got my flashy new iPod Classic today, it's really sweet :-)
>>>
>>> Anyhow, got a friend to load some stuff on it while I was at work using
>>> iTunes, then when I came home decided to load my music collection and some
>>> videos. Fired up gtkpod and loaded some music and thought I would try
>>> transferring some mp4 video files as well.
>>>
>>> Gtkpod did not complain and showed that it had transferred the files
>>> successfully and updated the database on the device. However, now when I
>>> access the iPod's menu, it shows no available files at all...
>>>
>>> The device and gtkpod both show that some storage is being used on the iPod,
>>> but none of it can be accessed from the iPod menu.
>>>
>>> Anyone have some experience with this? I'd rather not have to go through the
>>> trouble of getting iTunes running under Wine.
>>>
>>> I did try using Amarok as Chris Gow had suggested, but gave up as its
>>> interface, like so many KDE apps, is completely inscrutable to me.  
>>>       
>> Oh, those fargin bastages at Apple...
>>
>> "As recently reported on Slashdot, Apple, in its infinite wisdom, has added a
>> checksum to the iPod database apparently to restrict non-iTunes products (like
>> Amarok via libgpod) from having the ability to add music. To me this sounds
>> pretty familiar. This is the same thing they did to iTunes 4.5 to make it
>> harder for other apps to read off their DAAP shares, they changed it again in
>> iTunes 7; open source apps are still unable to read iTunes 7 DAAP shares."
>>
>> http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/496-iPod-Classic-Will-Be-Supported.html
>>
>> So it looks like I have to either get iTunes running or get the latest version
>> of gtkpod or Amarok.
>>     
>
> All hail the gtkpod devel team :-)
>
> Just in case anyone else needs this info:
>
> 0. Install libmp4v2-devel so that gtkpod is build with support for...well, mp4.
>
> 1. Grab libgpod svn:
>
> svn co https://gtkpod.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gtkpod/libgpod/trunk libgpod
>
> *Important* read the README.sysinfo file and follow the instructions.
>
> ...then build and install the usual way (I used ./configure --prefix=/usr)
>
> 2. Grab gtkpod svn:
>
> svn co https://gtkpod.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gtkpod/gtkpod/trunk gtkpod
>
> ...and build and install the usual way.
>
> You should be good to go. I know I am. Woot!
>
>   

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