[ale] DVD -> ipod video

[Pete Hardie]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 21:59, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Fri January 2 2009, Pete Hardie wrote:
>> And it does work!  I was able to get a DV D movie onto my iPod.
>> Thanks to all for the pointers and advice!
>>
>> > FWIW, I did find the avidemux settings that work, at least for the
>> > small sample I tried.
>
> for those of us that didn't follow the entire thread ( and I just got a nice
> new little mp3 player that also does movies), what exactly do you do??
>
> for my home movies, I use tovid to create MPEG videos from AVIs, then burn
> those to DVDs using makeburn... will an mp3 player play an MPEG? ( or for
> that matter an AVI?)

handbrake has several 'presets' for various types of devices (Apple's
flock is well-represented),
so it would probably depend on what your device supports.  I just ran
handbrakeCLI with the iPod
preset, in from the DVD drive, out to the .mp4 file.

the -z option lists the presets for HandBrakeCLI



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