Convert avi and vob files to ipod video format

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:13 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 18:43 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> >   
> >> How can I convert either *.avi or *.vob files to a format that can be 
> >> synced to my new iPod Nano -- the wide one? 8 Gb. I have no previous 
> >> iPod experience. Then I sync this with Amarok? I have a teacher who 
> >> sends everyone in the class *.avi video files and I'd love to play them 
> >> back on the Nano. I also want to see if I can copy a James Bond movie 
> >> DVD to the iPod and play the movie.
> >>     
> > ----
> > this has the basics...
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder
> >
> > this is the whole enchilada...
> > http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/06/07/howto-batch-encode-video-for-ipod-under-linux-2007-edition
> >
> > but you have to build gpac manually (at least I had to) and there's a
> > few requisites to getting it built.
> >
> >   
> Craig, where did you put the SpiderMonkey executables? In ~/lib?
> 
> How did you build gpac? What was the configure string...is it still in 
> your history for example?
> 
> Thanks a lot!!!
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I just did the simple ./configure - the nice thing that the ./configure
does is report back what it found to build and what it didn't.

then make and them make install

but you're correct that it doesn't seem to find the stuff
in /usr/local/lib so I ended up just doing symlinks for that stuff (but
I didn't bother building spidermonkey stuff)...

ln -s /usr/local/lib/gpac /usr/lib
ls -s /usr/local/lib/libgpac-0.4.4.so /usr/lib/libgpac.so
so the same would probably work for the spider monkey stuff

-- 
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>