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Gtkpod 0.99.12 backport for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

2008/01/27 – 4:15 pm

I backported the Gtkpod 0.99.12 for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

Gtkpod 0.99.12 Ubuntu

These packages have support for aac (Advanced Audio Codec). I also compiled it with the video support, which was not originally included in the binary version in Ubuntu. That’s why you also must install the libmp4v2 and the Mpeg4ip packages.You can download the needed files from the following list:

Update: you will also need the libgpod3 package, which is not available in Gutsy. You can download it packaged by Mario Limonciello in his PPA repository. Thanks Brian for signalling this missing.

Here you have also the dev files (you’ll need them only if you are going to build any software which has dependencies on Gtkpod, Faad or Mpeg4ip):


Attention! Gtkpod 0.99.12 has still some issues:

  • it will not automatically extract thumbnails from videos, but you can set them by hand;
  • on the iPod Touch and the iPhone photo uploading is not working: photo are actually uploaded and listed but the iPod Touch/iPhone will not be able to show them.

To install the files just download them and install using dpkg. Assuming you downloaded to your desktop, type the following inside a terminal:


cd ~/Desktop
sudo dpkg -i *deb

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Podencoder script with Single Pass option

2008/01/26 – 1:35 am

iPod TouchI recently bought an iPod Touch, very nice gadget, but with a very bad video section: only a few formats accepted, forcing me to recode almost all my video files.
I found the best way to do it on Linux is to use the Podencoder script by Mark Pilgrim. It mainly needs mencoder and mp4box, both easily installable on Ubuntu and Debian. The only problem is that my computer is really slow, and encoding an H.264 video seems to be never ending, also because the Podencoder script automatically use a Two Passes encoding, which gives the best quality, but also almost double the encoding time.
So I added an option to Podencoder to choose the Single Pass (the Two Passes is still the default action). If you want to encode using Single Pass just use the -1 option, like in this example:


podencoder -1 input_video.avi

You can download the modified script from here: podencoder.

Remember to make it executable. It’s also good to place is in the local bin path. To do all those actions just copy and paste the following lines into your terminal (you need to be root):


wget http://www.soccio.it/code/ipod/podencoder -O /usr/local/bin/podencoder
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/podencoder

If you are using Ubuntu or other sudo enabled distros, you can use these lines instead, without the need of being root:


sudo wget http://www.soccio.it/code/ipod/podencoder -O /usr/local/bin/podencoder
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/podencoder

Nautilus Script Encode for iPod VideoI also prepared a few lines script to encode your videos from the Nautilus file manager. The result videos will be placed into your Desktop. Just place the Nautilus Scripts Encode for iPod – Single Pass and Encode for iPod – Two Passes into ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts. Again: remember to make them executable. Again, to download and place the two Nautilus scripts in the right place just copy and paste the following lines into your terminal.


cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/
wget "http://www.soccio.it/code/ipod/Encode for iPod - Two Passes"
wget "http://www.soccio.it/code/ipod/Encode for iPod - Single Pass"
chmod +x *
cd

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