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Just installed rockbox on my Ipod Video 5.5gen, few questions

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desipher:
Hello I recently bought a new iPod to use with Rockbox, and I have a few questions regarding a few things.

First off i've viewed the wiki, and searched the forum for answers before hand, and I couldn't get the answers I seeked. If I accidently skipped over a thread or wiki page, please point me in the right direction.

My first question regard Album Art. My music collection is quite big, and I have album art for most of it saved already, but it's all saved as cover.jpg and usually 500pixels or bigger. I have downloaded a number of programs but they all seem to lack the ability to search for my album art and resize them all automatically to the size that rockbox uses for iPods, and converts to BMP.

So am I forced to manually resize every individual piece of album art I have? Is there a program that scans my empty folders and automatically downloads that album art to a certain pixel size and BMP format?

My other question regarded video. I have tried several programs (WinFF and MediaCoder seemed to be the easier to use), and followed proper instructions but everytime I succesfully convert a video to .mpg or mpeg2 the audio is there, but the video is covered in artifacts and looks terrible. What is the recommended video converter? Also how do you install and run ffmpeg? It's just a dos command prompt that disappears after i run it.

My last question regards overall performance. I know the iPod video uses a hard drive so things can be slow, but sometimes switching tracks can seem to take longer than it really should. Are there any tips for how I can increase overall performance for Rockbox?

Thanks!

linuxstb:

--- Quote from: desipher on September 21, 2008, 01:32:32 AM ---My first question regard Album Art. My music collection is quite big, and I have album art for most of it saved already, but it's all saved as cover.jpg and usually 500pixels or bigger. I have downloaded a number of programs but they all seem to lack the ability to search for my album art and resize them all automatically to the size that rockbox uses for iPods, and converts to BMP.

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See http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/AlbumArt#Format_Conversion


--- Quote from: desipher on September 21, 2008, 01:32:32 AM ---My other question regarded video. I have tried several programs (WinFF and MediaCoder seemed to be the easier to use), and followed proper instructions but everytime I succesfully convert a video to .mpg or mpeg2 the audio is there, but the video is covered in artifacts and looks terrible. What is the recommended video converter? Also how do you install and run ffmpeg? It's just a dos command prompt that disappears after i run it.

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See http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer for suggestions for video convertors, and also read the Introduction telling you why we don't recommend you use Rockbox for video on an iPod Video - you'll get much better performance in Apple's firmware on that particular device.


--- Quote from: desipher on September 21, 2008, 01:32:32 AM ---My last question regards overall performance. I know the iPod video uses a hard drive so things can be slow, but sometimes switching tracks can seem to take longer than it really should. Are there any tips for how I can increase overall performance for Rockbox?

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Rockbox should buffer upcoming tracks in RAM and then shut down the hard drive to save power.  So if you're switching to a track that isn't buffered, you'll need to wait for the disk to spin up and the start of the track to be loaded to RAM.

If what you're experiencing is something else, please describe in more detail.

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