I wrote an auto video encoding script (only works in windows) a while back that people may find useful:
Basically you tell it to "watch" a folder and then just open it. Any videos placed in that folder will be encoded to iPod format and placed in a directory that you specify.
It automatically resizes based on a maximum or minimum resolution and automatically changes the bitrate based on the resolution of the video. It encodes everything using 2-pass x264 (open source version of h264) and aac audio. The video encoding can take quite a while due to being 2-pass x264, but it's all automated so...just leave it alone
The default video encoding settings are (I believe) the highest possible settings that will work on the Touch (excluding bitrate which changes).
to use it:
http://www.jslibrary.org/downloads/ipod_encode.hta (right click and select download)
Open the file in your favorite text editor and edit the settings at the top of the file (they're all explained).
For all the applications it needs (ffmpeg, x264, etc), you can just download MeGUI (http://sourceforge.net/projects/megui) which has all of them and then just set the paths in the script.
Basically you tell it to "watch" a folder and then just open it. Any videos placed in that folder will be encoded to iPod format and placed in a directory that you specify.
It automatically resizes based on a maximum or minimum resolution and automatically changes the bitrate based on the resolution of the video. It encodes everything using 2-pass x264 (open source version of h264) and aac audio. The video encoding can take quite a while due to being 2-pass x264, but it's all automated so...just leave it alone
The default video encoding settings are (I believe) the highest possible settings that will work on the Touch (excluding bitrate which changes).
to use it:
http://www.jslibrary.org/downloads/ipod_encode.hta (right click and select download)
Open the file in your favorite text editor and edit the settings at the top of the file (they're all explained).
For all the applications it needs (ffmpeg, x264, etc), you can just download MeGUI (http://sourceforge.net/projects/megui) which has all of them and then just set the paths in the script.