Tux-ing your pod! Thursday March 16, 2006
Posted by Maco in Linux, Tech Bytes, Tech Projects.trackback
Getting bored with your Ipod? After obsessively and compulsively arranging your music database, dressing each files with picture albums and meticulously labeled it with its proper artist and album. You now realized that it’s all what your ipod can do – play music (unless you have the ipod with video).
Here is the good news, open source linux people didn’t let the number one mp3 player to survive without a hack. Yup, it’s ipod with video linux style. As long as your ipod has a screen (sorry for shuffle users), it can play movies. Yes, you heard it right if you have the earlier generations of ipod up to the minis, ipod photo and nano you can play movies.
Now I can play movie clips on my 2 Gb Ipod Nano. Boots to Apple OS or IpodLinux.
If you want to risk your babies out you may want to check this site : http://ipodlinux.org
Please read the caveats in the website before installing linux to your pods. The Ipod linux OS is still under major development and still have a lot of promise to fulfill.
Here are some of the pics of my nano playing Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps (sorry for the low res cam!) :
Ooh! Cool =)
I don’t have an iPod so I can’t relate
Anyhow, go ahead and post about the tech sem. That would be really neat