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Friday 30th July 2010

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Connecting iRiver IFP 890 MP3/Ogg player

iRiver IFP-890 MP3/Ogg playerToday I found a mp3 player that I didn't use in quite a while. It has the best sound I've ever experienced with such a small player. Far better than my Ipod I can tell you. And it even plays ogg files.

Anyway, I needed to refresh the content so I installed ifpgui.

sudo apt-get install ifpgui

Create mp4 with ffmpeg for Samsung SGH-E900

Samsung E900My phone plays video's so I decided to convert an old Will & Grace episode from a PAL resolution AVI to a 320x240 MP4 with ffmpeg. Here's the command:

ffmpeg -i will_and_grace.avi -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -maxrate 1000 -b 700 -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -g 300 -acodec aac -ab 128 -s 320x240 -aspect 4:3 out.mp4

I had to compile a new ffmpeg though as the ffmpeg that comes with Ubuntu doesn't support mp3 or aac encoding. Here's the configure command: