Is there an equivalent to the Nokia video converter in Linux? I found one a while back but it was more for the 770 and the fonts didn't render well on my distro (PCLOS). I know there are a few (many) scripts do do this but I would like one with a gui that I can drag and drop a few files and then just walk away.

Cheers

Clive

If you'll forgive the plug, tablet-encode now has a GUI on Linux.

You can even use its simple command line syntax to add a "Send to tablet" option to videos in your file manager (e.g. Nautilus) which'll re-encode the selected video with a GUI progress bar and copy it to your USB-mounted tablet.

Thanks for the reminder

How would you do that? I know in the terminal you use the command tablet-encode, and I know what folder to add a script file to, to get a send to command. But what command line would I have to put in the script file?

@Jaffa - Thanks and I'm playing with it but so far no luck... permissions etc. I'll keep working at it... I have it in usr/bin and it isn't allowing me to run it because I don't have permission. Linux sometimes bugs me with that sort of thing...

Cheers

C

I usually just run it (after putting it in /usr/bin) as sudo tablet-encode.

Make it executable. . . . sudo chmod +x ./tablet-encode

I love tablet-encode. I have combined it with some tivo scripts to automatically download shows using TiVo2Go shows, decrypt them, and convert them to tablet-compatible avi files. I just kick it off before going to bed and I've got shows to scp over to my tablet when I wake up. The next step is to set up some kind of scheduled rsync to download the files automatically.

On Kubuntu I'm using VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ for transcoding videos to a format that's suitable for the N8x0.

VLC has lots of features, a GUI and besides transcoding to a file it's even possible to stream the video directly to the N8x0 while transcoding.

I have added a tutorial with suitable VLC settings to the german N800 wiki. The article is in german, but there are quite a few screenshots which should be pretty much self explanatory.
http://www.n800wiki.de/pmwiki.php?n=Main.DVDStreaming

Basically I'm encoding to .asf container (only .asf containers are properly working for streaming to the N8x0. But if you are not interested in streaming probably another container will also do). Video codec is mp4, with bitrate well below 1024 but above 512 kbit/s and scaling down the video to 50% to 75% of the N8x0 screen resolution (this really depend on the compexity of the video). Audio codec is mpga, stereo, 128 kbit/s.

For playback of the video/videostream on the N8x0 I'm using mplayer. With the softvol option to bump up the volume and the aspect option to correct the aspect ratio (if neccessary).

So far I had no problems at all with this setup. And I already did transcode + stream a whole lot of DVDs to the N8x0 this way.