On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Phill Coxon <phi...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > I recently joined Quest Healthclub in Ferrymead to improve my fitness > again. > > All of the carido equipment - treadmills, biks etc - have screens with > an ipod av input so I can plug an ipod in and watch videos. I've tested > this with my wife's ipod and it works great. > > The problem is that I don't want to use itunes and the latest ipod > classics are not compatible with the RockBox open source junkbox > (rockbox.org). > > Is there anyone on the list using a late model ipod with linux? > > Can you confirm whether the latest ipods will work with amarok or what > other software you recommend to transfer music / video to the ipod > without having to resort to itunes on Windows? > 8G nano works for me, you need libgpod, but outside that its reasonably well supported. 1) Amarok integration is the best I've seen. 2) Theres several tools for copying music to them ( Istr there was a kioslave that did the trick at some stage ) as for /video/ however, thats a bit harder, and I've not been able to get that working. > Recommendations for great alternative portable mp4 video players are > very welcome. The one catch is that they need to have an ipod > compatible socket that I can use to plug into at the gym... > > Thanks! > > > -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"
