On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:26:16AM -0500, Scott Abbey wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: > > > My wife won an iPod Touch on a raffle last Friday. After playing with > > it for a while I've almost given up on the idea of keeping it. A lot of > > surfing and experimenting later I've found the following: > > > > * libgpod (which is used by both gtkpod and amarok) in Debian Sid only > > has read-only support for the iPod Touch (requires a jailbreak and > > installing SSH, which I've done). That seems to mean that iTunes is the > > only way of syncing music and audiocasts onto it. Ouch. > > > > * It doesn't have a flash decoder. All it offers is a H.264 decoder. > > This means that most videos on the web can't be watched. I've failed to > > find details on how to convert flash (and other format) videos to > > something that the iPod Touch could play. So even if I find a way of > > sticking videos on it I still can't play them :( > > > > Does anyone have any pointers on these issues. Or is the only option > > left to me to put it for sale on ebay and buy a Nokia N800 for the money? > > Personally, I would sell it and buy a N800. > > I don't know much about the Touch, never having owned an iPod, but I can > tell you that several sites offer a flv(Flash) to * service. vixy.net is > one. You can also use mencoder to transcode the flv to some other > format[1]. > > 1. http://www.linux.com/feature/56642 > >
I have used graphics/ffmpeg to convert *.swf files to avi and mpg. According to the man info it can also do flv. Something to try. ---- Alexander J. M. Linux 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
