On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Phill Coxon<phi...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:54 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > >> I'd suggest telling Apple to get stuffed, and take your business >> elsewhere. If enough people took that attitude, instead of >> subscribing to Apple's dictatorship, then perhaps they would no longer >> have so much control over this particular market. > > I couldn't agree more. However, given the location I want to use the > video only has ipod connectors I'm limited to Apple hardware unless > someone can show me a great linux compatible mp4 player with a > compatible connector. > >> As for alternative media players, I have looked for a nice, Linux >> friendly one, and I found a few that sounded as if they would be easy >> to use with Linux. But I can't remember what any of them were. > > Hmmm. That's the problem. Finding good locally available hardware and > knowing that it works well with Linux. > >
I have 16G 4th generation Nano. I was able to convert video to the correct format with avidemux using the ipod profile that is included. I was also able to get that video onto the ipod with gtkpod. gtkpod is not the prettiest ipod/media manager, but it does stuff that the average "media player with ipod addon features" won't do - like transfer videos. Also worth noting that if you are on ubuntu you want the gtkpod-aac (multiverse) package rather than the gtkpod (universe) package.
