OT: iPod Touch and Linux?
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? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus．therning＠gmail．com http://therning.org/magnus What if I don't want to obey the laws? Do they throw me in jail with the other bad monads? -- Daveman signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: OT: iPod Touch and Linux?
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: iPod Touch and Linux?
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]
