The following tutorial shows how to convert to MVPD files. For those that don’t know. MVPD can only be played on 1st generation iPod Nano’s that have Linux installed. If I have time I’ll write on how to do that. But until then, read about it at ipodlinux.org.

Software needed:

EZBuilder
AVISynth
KLite Mega Codec Pack

• Download English version of EZBuilder.
  • Download iPod Nano MVPD profile
• You need codecs, I usually use the Klite Mega codec packs from free-codecs.com
  • This has every codec under the sun, DIVX, Xvid, RM, QT, etc
• Download and install AVISynth. I’m using 2.5.7
• Unzip EZBuilder to a directory (www.7zip.org to download decompresser)
• From the iPod_nano_MVPD_profile_20070720.rar file:
  • copy “mv_encoder.exe,” “mpvd_builder.exe,” & “cygwin1.dll” to “..\ezbuilder\tool” folder.
  • copy the folder “iPod nano MVPD” to “..\ezbuilder\profile\tool” folder.
• Copy the videos you want to convert into the MediaFile folder
• For SRT subtitles, put them them in MediaFile folder with the same name as the movie. ex. shrek.srt with shrek.avi
• For SSA/ASS/IDX/SUB subtitles, put them in Subtitle folder
• Run ezbuilder.exe
• Choose [1] iPOD NANO MVPD
• Wait, encoding times varies with your CPU, I have core2duo 1.8Ghz and it converts pretty fast.
• When your file is converted, it should show up in the DoneFile directory
• Copy the WHATEVER.MVPD file in the DoneFile directory to your iPod Nano
• Launch mvplayer from Linux and watch

Hints:

1. Try not to have funky characters or spaces in your file name

2. Use the NTFS Link Shell extension

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