A while ago I ripped some DVDs to my computer so that I didn’t need to keep a stack of DVDs lying around. However, the movie files are on average around 7GB in size, and that much information is not needed for my Ipod, which only has a 320 x 144 pixel screen. The solution is just decrease the quality of the movie. After converting the movie, the image will look fairly bad on a TV or computer screen, but it looks great on an Ipod. The reason for decreasing the quality is that the file size also decreases and will only be around 700 MB, rather than 7GB, after the conversion.
To convert videos for your Ipod just do the following:
- Make sure ffmpeg is installed: sudo yum install ffmpeg
- Convert the video using ffmpeg: ffmpeg -s 320×144 -qmax 4 -i input_file_name.avi output_file_name.mp4
The movie will be trimmed on the edges to fit the Ipod screen with the -s 320×144 option, but if you leave this out, the movie will be shrunk to fit on the Ipod’s screen, which might make the image too small.
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