I liked mencoder better, too. I actually started this mission by using<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
"podencoder", a script which uses mencoder. It's nice because it will<br>
read any file mplayer will read.<br>
<br>
For whatever reason, though, I was unable to get 720x480 output to<br>
work on the iPod using mencoder, but it worked fine when using ffmpeg.<br>
I suspect it's a matter of figuring out which strange options the iPod<br>
requires.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I arranged the options to group them together. For 320x240 I use "-vf-add scale=320:240".<br><br>nice -+19 mencoder -ofps 25 -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4:i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames -af lavcresample=44100 -vf-add harddup -vf-add scale=320:240 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts aglobal=1:vglobal=1:acodec=libfaac:abitrate=128:vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=384:keyint=25 -o $VIDEODIR/pda/$TITLE-$STARTTIME-$SUBTITLE.mp4 $VIDEODIR/$FILENAME -quiet<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> What bitrate do you use?<br>
<br>
For mpeg4 it's configurable up to 2500kbps, and for h264 it's up to<br>
1500kbps. Both of those are the max that the iPod will support by<br>
default. What I found strange is that when I reduced the bitrate, the<br>
filesize and encode speed didn't drop all that much, so I didn't see<br>
much point in dropping the bitrate. At 2500kbps for mpeg4, I'm seeing<br>
about 1gig/hour. It's a lot bigger than the typical divx/xvid movie,<br>
but to have a video that looks great both on the screen and on the<br>
iPod is pretty nice.</blockquote><div><br>I use 384K for video and 128K for audio and get a filesize around 160M for an hour long show with the commercials chopped out (40mins). I usually keep around 20+ hours of Mythtv on my Ipod Touch which I think is great. Playback seems perfect to me. I probably watch at least an hour a day on the Touch.<br>
<br>Jeff<br></div></div><br>