Downloadable iPod Video preset

[ThatsMytrunks]

I spent a few minutes tinkiering with FFMPEGX's settings, and came up with a nice little preset for encoding your videos for use with an iPod video. I know there have been a few floating around and a lot of people asking questions, but I figured I'd stab it myself. Everything's been tested, and it works wonderfully on Anime Files. It's also a crapload faster than Quicktime 7 Pro's exporting. You can argue about video quality, but I say whatev'.

If you're unhappy with the vid qual, click the "video" tab and mess with the number in front of kbit/s. Most people can suffice with 400, but I prefer 800, because I'm spoiled like that.

http://trunks.fireball20xl.com/etc/other/iPodPreset.ffx

Enjoy. AIM me if you have any questions at BlackJackTrunks. Laters.

[ahmontgo]

Your file uses the MPEG4 rather than the XviD encoder, which produces files that Quicktime doesn't like...

[dirtydan]

This profile also does not use h.264.

Is there a way to use h.264 with ffmpegx?

[hh83917]

Don't think ffmpeg's avc work with ipod. But if you need to encode the entire dvd, you can try the baseline version of handbrake which can directly encode the video_ts folder to ipod playable avc/h264 mp4 file.

Click here to go to the handbrake forum page to download

P.S: the baseline version of handbrake was modified from the handbrake cvs, so the original handbrake won't do the trick.

[dirtydan]

Yes, thank you I have been using that and it works great for movies, but I have several discs of music videos I would like to put on my iPod. I know you can set what chapter to start and end, but Handbrake does not cleanly find the end of the chapter. Which adds about 2 sec. of the following video to the desired one. For a disc with 20+ videos on it that is a lot of clean-up.

Also, loosely related a movie like Star Wars that has multiple languages muxed together into the angle setting might cause problems.

I have not personally tried it with Handbrake, but when I did try it with AutoGK to put on my PocketPC it would cycle through the video information quickly going from english to spanish to french (I think) then back to english. The workaround for this was to use osex to extract the angle and sound I wanted. Osex creates a .vob file with the specific info in it.

Handbrake will not work with these individual files, so it is not a complete solution. FfmpegX will work with these files, and I can get it to work with XviD, but I would rather use h.264, and I think FfmpegX is able to do it I just haven't been able to get anything h.264 from it to go to the iPod.

[major]

I am waiting for my video iPod. As soon as it arrives I'll work to add an iPod preset.

[TryNiX]

cool! when can we expect an official preset to be released??

[major]

As soon as it is done.. For now use the PSP preset, it should already work.

[dirtydan]

But it does not use the x264 and therefore are quite large.

[major]

There is quite enough place in the iPod, and it is faster to encode. But I'll also add an h264 preset quite soon.

[delhux]

I've tried the PSP video preset with my iPod Video, and the quality is lackluster. A lot of horizontal line distortion during motion.

[major]

Did you use 320x240 resolution?

[delhux]

Blame me if you must, but don't ever speak ill of the Program! The Program is rock solid! The Program is sound!

Yeah. I didn't have it set at 320x240.