[ale] DVD -> ipod video

[Brian Pitts]

Pete Hardie wrote:
> Happy New Year, all!
> 
> I have been trying to find the correct set of options to take DVD
> video and convert it to a format an iPod will play.  The one video
> that I
> have on the iPod now has a suffix of m4v, but that has not appeared to
> be definitive enough to help me.  If anyone has pointers
> to a set of tools for doing this under Fedora 8, I would be very appreciative

Handbrake has a preset for ipods.

"HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded
video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows."

http://handbrake.fr
http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/BuiltInPresets#ipodlow-rez

-Brian