Make Videos Mobile Friendly With Two Clicks

Posted on October 17th, 2007 by nathan

This tutorial form Ubuntu Unleashed shows how to add a right click menu item for video files to quickly convert them into a format that’s friendly for your iPod or other mobile device. Even though it’s from Ubuntu Unleashed, the only requirements are ffmpeg and Ruby, so it should be easily extented to apply to any distro.

I’ll definitely be taking a closer look at this, since I like to watch lots of video on my Palm T|X!

Full Story: HOWTO: Right Click-Convert videos to Ipod / Smartphone format Quickly and Easily

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Filed under: Ubuntu-specific, Multimedia, Working with Files

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One Response to “Make Videos Mobile Friendly With Two Clicks”

  1. ProductiveLinux » Convert Videos Straight from Konqueror With Ffmpegmenu, on November 29th, 2007 at 6:34 am Said:

    […] There are a couple scripts that add video conversion features to Nautilus (here’s one) but this is first one I’ve heard of that integrates into KDE. This script, highlighted by the FOSSwire blog, adds a right click menu that lets you easily convert videos into multiple formats. From FOSSwire: The script itself is very simple, such that it’s definitely possible to edit it to customise the commands it runs to make your own ffmpeg conversion options. It does require you have ffmpeg and the necessary codecs to convert to DVD, MPEG and iPod already installed, as it is just a loader which calls ffmpeg. […]

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