Video Convert
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This is a Tutorial for converting movie files so they can be played on the ipod via aegray's Video_Player. Note that you don't have to do any of this. Just scroll down to the Frontends Section!
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Windows
This tutorial assumes that you already have Cygwin installed on Windows
- Download Mplayer for Windows
- After unziping it, put the Mplayer folder in C:\cygwin\home\YourName
- Download File:2bppconv.tgz
- Old Version of 2bppconv is not needed. Please download the above version.
- Put 2bppconv in the Mplayer folder
- Place the video you are converting in the Mplayer folder
- Launch cygwin and type
$ cd Mplayer
Photo
$ ./mencoder.exe -ovc raw -ofps 15 -oac pcm -vf scale=220:-2,expand=220:176,format=bgr16 input.file -o output.avi
Nano
$ ./mencoder.exe -ovc raw -ofps 15 -oac pcm -vf scale=176:-2,expand=176:132,format=bgr16 input.file -o output.avi
Grayscale iPods
Use the following mencoder command, then run the conversion program on the output of mencoder :
$ ./mencoder.exe -ovc raw -ofps 15 -oac pcm -vf scale=160:-2,expand=160:128,format=bgr24 input.file -o output.avi $ ./2bppconv output.avi ipodready.avi
Mini
$ ./mencoder.exe -ovc raw -ofps 15 -oac pcm -vf scale=138:-2,expand=138:110,format=bgr24 input.file -o output.avi $ ./2bppconv output.avi ipodready.avi
- Replace input.file with the filename of the video you are converting (eg. mymovie.avi). Replace output.avi with the filename you wish to give the Mplayer converted file (eg. mymovieconverted.avi). Replace ipodready.avi with the name you wish to give the final iPod-ready file (eg. mymovieipod.avi).
- The resulting file will be much larger than the original - typically 10 times the size. This is normal, and is necessary because the video player will only work with uncompressed files.
Frontends
There exist several frontends for video conversion. The following is a list of a few.
- EILVC by Joker81
- MoPiD by JoeyJWC
- Easy2BPPConv by JoeyJWC
