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Perl Developer. Linux Advocacy. Practicing Guitarist.

I just got a new iPod Nano for my birthday and no surprises - it works perfectly well with my Fedora desktop. I use amarok to sync all my music. It works like a charm. I can play music on my iPod right through amarok itself when connected to my desktop.

To play videos you need to first convert your video file to Apple’s format. ffmpeg does this job. To convert input.avi to ipod.mov

$ ffmpeg -i input.avi -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -maxrate 1000 -b 700 \
-qmin 3 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -g 300 -acodec libfaac -ab 128 \
-s 320x240 -aspect 4:3 -r 29 ipod.mov


You can then use amarok to browse your filesystem and copy ipod.mov to your device. The video quality on my iPod after conversion was pretty decent.

Next Step? Install Linux on my iPod!

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