[wellylug] Using DVDs and iPods on Linux
Alex Thomson
alex.thomson at solnetsolutions.co.nz
Thu Jul 12 08:49:39 NZST 2007
I installed rockbox on my iPod a little while back and haven't looked
back (even my non-technical partner wanted it on hers- which if you knew
her is saying something!)
Copying music on/off, you just treat it like a USB external drive- it
will automatically find music files on it.
As for DVD (and other video files) I haven't seen anything as nice and
simple as VLC
Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> I use gtkpod
>
> jamie
>
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:03 +1200, Callum Grant wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I'm not sure what software you should use to sync your iPod but about what I
>> can do is recommend a dvd player.
>>
>> I use VLC media player to play dvds it should be in the add/remove
>> programmes package system, but it is not monitored by ubuntu so it will be
>> under the third party software list. To play the dvds you will need to get
>> into the terminal and use these commands:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install -y libdvdread3
>> sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
>>
>> then if you want to play WMV, WMA, and RealPlayer formats you will need to
>> use these commands:
>>
>> wget -c
>> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/w/w32codecs/w32codecs_20061022-0.
>> 0_i386.deb
>> sudo dpkg -i w32codecs_20061022-0.0_i386.deb
>>
>> I hope this helps as it worked for me in ubuntu and ubuntustudio.
>>
>> Cheers, Callum
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>> [mailto:wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of David James
>> Dubrelle Morrah
>> Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2007 6:29 p.m.
>> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>> Subject: [wellylug] Using DVDs and iPods on Linux
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> a few days ago I installed Xubuntu on my laptop. No major problems, I
>> use Linux 90% of the time and is very fast, however, I am still having
>> to switch to XP whenever I want to burn a CD, watch a DVD or use my
>> iPod. To be more specific:
>>
>> - GXine, the player bundled with my OS, doesn't play DVDs at all,
>> although it can play audio CDs. However, it won't read mp3, Apple AAC
>> or m4a files, it can only pick up WAV files.
>>
>> - Can anyone recommend a good CD burner for Linux?
>>
>> - I need a program that will pick up my iPod, preferably something that
>> offers the same functionality as iTunes. I've tried googling a few, but
>> had trouble installing them. Does anyone know any good downloads that
>> will actually work?
>>
>> - Incidentally, how does one enable start up music? Does Linux have a
>> default start up sound like Windows?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>>
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