Its been a while since I’ve tried to install some movies on my Ipod, and the way I used to do it doesn’t work anymore! I’ve already installed the beta of Ubuntu 11.04, and everything seems to work fairly well. However, I couldn’t find support for faac for the audio codec, but I was able to use aac with the -strict experimental option.
To rip the DVD, I found the AcidRip DVD Ripper and the Arista Transcoder programs to work fairly well, but when they converted the movie for the ipod (in either mp4 of m4v format) it didn’t work. I had to use ffmpeg instead to convert the video . Here is an example for the movie Inglorious Bastards. I looked up the requirements on Apple’s website for the video format on an Ipod, and this command worked successfully. After converting the video I was able to use Banshee to load the video onto my Ipod.
ffmpeg -strict experimental -i inglourious_basterds.avi -f mp4 -vcodec libxvid -s 320×240 -b 600k -r 30 -acodec aac -ar 48000 -ab 160k Inglorius\ Bastards.mp4
Apple specified the following requirements for the video format on their website:
- H.264
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 768 kbits/sec, 320 x 240, 30 frames per second (fps), Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, and stereo audio. - MPEG-4
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 2.5 Mbits/sec, 480 x 480, 30 fps, Simple Profile.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, stereo audio.
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I had the same problem since Ubuntu 11.04 (with Arista 0.9.6 as default). Just update to the newest version of Arista 0.9.7 and there will be no problem the new version can convert to Ipod.
I had this problem too, but a friend told me to use GTKPOD… you can find it in the Ubuntu Software Center. It does everything iTunes does so you don’t need to convert as far as I know. I have mainly .flv and .mp4 videos and they work