I have successfully converted videos (e.g. TED talks) to Sansa Fuze+ on an ubuntu machine using ffmpeg.
If you are not familiar with Linux bash scripts you had better stop reading here.
I have a directory where I collect the files to be converted, with two sub directories named “done” and “out”
The following bash script does the work:
#! /bin/bash
for file in *.mp4
do
ffmpeg -i “$file” -s 320x180 -vf pad=320:240:0:20 “out/$file”
mv – “$file” done
done
when the script is done the originals are found in subdirectory “done” and the files to be moved to my Fuze+ in directory “out”.
I hope somebody else find this useful.
Best regards
Jeppe
PS.
ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version N-31760-g84a6abd, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Aug 5 2011 00:03:34 with gcc 4.4.5
DS
