Simple iPod Video Converter (SIVE) is a GTK 2 frontend to mplayer, mencoder, and mp4creator. SIVE lets you convert videos to play them on your iPod Video with only a few clicks. SIVE produces iPod compliant H.124 videos, by using mencoder to encode and mp4creator to create a container iPod Video can use. It generates the options to be passed to these command line tools in order to create what the user asked (bitrate, audio track, subtitles, resolution, scale, crop). It shows the commands and their results in an embedded terminal so the user can learn how to use these tools manually.

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The easiest way to get Rockbox and iPod Linux running on your iPod simultaneously.

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By putting Linux on your iPod (www.ipodlinux.org), you are able to watch videos on iPods that do not usually support them. However the propriatary format required is difficult to convert movies to using a Macintosh computer. Using MacMv, this problem has been solved in a user-friendly way.

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Walk, jog or bicycle across a New York street with an iPod plugged in your ears and you could get slapped with a $100 ticket under a new law proposed by a legislator from Brooklyn.

State Sen. Carl Kruger’s bill would also outlaw the use of cell phones, Blackberries, video games or other electronic devices when crossing the street.

He cited the death of a 21-year-old man who was listening to music when he stepped off a curb and was hit by a bus in Brooklyn in September, and the death of a 23-year-old iPod listener last month.

“If you’re so involved in your electronic device that you can’t see or hear a car coming, this is indicative of a larger problem that requires some sort of enforcement beyond the application of common sense,” Kruger said.

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thin liquid film (TLF) is an application that allows Linux users to quickly and easily convert video files into a format suitable for playing on the video capable iPods.

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