Sysadmin Ramblings

I was trying to get Songbird to recognise my ipod and it wouldn’t because the ipod was automounted under /media. I put the UUID of the iPod_Control partition in my fstab. I used blkid to get the UUID of that partition. Read the rest of this entry »

I have a DVD from which I wish to extract an audio clip. I used the raw VOB files and mplayer. The clip I wanted is 37 seconds long and starts 18 minutes and 53 seconds into the first VOB file.
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Symptom: iPod is blinking “Do Not Disconnect” even after you’ve umounted the filesystem. Read the rest of this entry »

There is an excellent package for working with an iPod on Linux. gtkpod. Since version 0.99.2 it supports importing of Video’s Read the rest of this entry »

My co-worker just got an iPod so I thought I would try and encode a DVD onto it (an unencrypted DVD that I own, for backup purposes only, not to be used for public performances, etc, only I looked at it, I shut it off when someone looked over my shoulder…blah blah). The ffmpeg that comes stock on RHEL4 is insufficient to do the transcoding. I built a newer version and mucked around a bit and got this going. I have a simple wrapper (there are numerous versions of such scripts floating around). Read the rest of this entry »