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I ran a lot of experiments and finnaly I wrote a VERY FAST script to convert videos to my iPod Nano 3rd Generation. It encode videos to XviD with ffmpeg and utilizes AAC as audio codec. The final quality is good, the result video file is small and the convertion time is short. So, what else could you want???

You can install it by coping and pasting the following lines into your terminal:

sudo wget http://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~evaladao/storage/scripts/ipodencoder.sh -O /usr/local/bin/ipodencoder
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ipodencoder

And to encode a video file, just type:

ipodencoder input_video.avi

OBS.: If your ffmpeg do not have AAC support, you can compile it from source with some additional parameters to get support to h264, xvid, theora, aac, etc... If you are using Ubuntu, just type:

cd /tmp
sudo apt-get build-dep ffmpeg
apt-get source ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg-*/
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libogg --enable-libtheora --enable-liba52 --enable-dc1394 --enable-libgsm --disable-debug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-xvid --enable-x264
make
make install