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Converting Videos to iPod Format - Easy Way
April 6th, 2008
A couple of posts ago I wrote about a program I created to change the text color of the Gnome panel. Well I had so much fun making that program I decided to make another! This time around I created a program that converts your videos to a format the iPod can read. Introducing my new creation iPod 2 Video Format! (Click the link to download)
You may remember an earlier post where I described another way this can be done, but that method required editing text files and using the terminal every time you wanted to convert a new video. My newly created program uses the same script we created last time (included with the download), but gives us a nice graphical user interface to use instead. Please note, though, that because we are still using the same script you still need a fully enabled ffmpeg installed for this to work. Follow my instructions Here if you need help with this. Also be aware that this program will probably only work in Gnome because it requires the Gnome Terminal.
I think the program is pretty straight forward. Simply click the 'Browse' button, search for the file you want to convert, change the output file name to whatever you want, and click convert. When you click convert you should see a window pop up that looks like this:
This is just ffmpeg doing the dirty work for us. Leave this window open so the file can finish converting. This could take anywhere from 20 minutes to a couple hours to finish depending on the length of the movie and the specs of your computer. When it is finished the final video will be saved to the same folder as the converter. If there was already a video in this folder with the same name it will be overwritten with the new one, so be careful. If you did not see this window pop up after you hit the convert button then an error occurred. Possible reasons are you did not give it a valid movie to convert, or you don't have ffmpeg installed correctly.
Please note that this program converts videos but doesn't actually put the video onto your iPod. You will need another program to do this. Personally I use gtkpod.
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