computergee Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 Shorty after getting my iPod for christmas I started looking up mods. One of the hardest to screw up seemed like putting linux on, this would enable my nano to play video! It seemed hard to screw up because if something went wrong I could use apples restore utility. Well after some problems with partitions and stuff I got it to work. After some reading I found out how to encode videos, well not really encode, to play videos on nano they have to be uncompressed. Due to nanos processing limitations. If you wanna get linux on your ipod I suggest you visit here. http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page and post in the forums. Heres a pic of it playing futurama . Sorry for bad image. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo55 Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 nice... if only i had the moolah to buy a nano  Can you run some apps on your nano? lol with linux on it i'm pretty sure you could do a whole lot more Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_lag Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 wow good job!!! but wouldn't the video take up alot of space on the nano? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spazmire11 Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 gj on getting linux on there have a search for idoom and you can play doom too! just wait till i get linux on my video, then i shall rule ze world! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
airman Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 nice tree Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
computergee Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 Thank you merry christmas. Yes I do plan to put idoom, isnt there half life also? There are some more apps, but I cant do much because of the nanos weak processor. Yea the videos take up a lot of space, since they have to be uncompressed. My 20 minute futurama takes up 1gig, good thing i got the 4 gig nano, and not many songs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoArmistead Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 How did you get it working? I'd love to do that to my nano, but that site says that iPodLinux isn't compatible with the click wheel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeV.o3 TwiZZler Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 pretty cool. I got an nano for christmas too but to scared to try anything on it yet lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
computergee Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 Theres not really anything to be scared of! If you screw up just reformat with an HP tool, and use apples updator to restore it! From what I hear it is really hard to brick a nano. Check out the site for some reassurance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
galla2k4eva Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 Get that beast folding!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
computergee Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 lol, im not sure there is fah for ipod. And with its weak cpu it would take 10 years for one wu. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblivescence Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 ahh, but there is folding@home for linux. id be scared to run folding on it. how would you cool something like that? props on getting linux on the ipod. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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