2.3. Linux

You should have a little bit of experience with Linux for this to be easy.

  1. Install MPlayer with MEncoder with XviD and DVD support. If your distribution does not have a package for this then you will have to build it yourself. Refer to the MPlayer documentation for instructions on how to do that.

    Note

    If you want to be able to manually sync the audio to the video, you must manually compile MPlayer and apply MPlayer-VER_iriverter.patch, where VER is MPlayer's version number, available from the the iriverter downloads page.

  2. Install a Java runtime environment 1.4 or higher. Check to see if your distribution has packages for this.

  3. Open a terminal and run

    
					$ tar -xvjpf iriverter-VER_linux.tar.bz2
    					$ cd iriverter-VER
    					$ java -jar iriverter.jar
    				

If you want to create a launcher to start iriverter, you need to write a quick script:

Example 2-1. A Launcher Script

Create a file called iriverter with contents:


				#!/bin/sh
				cd /path/to/iriverter
				java -jar iriverter.jar
			

Finally, run chmod +x iriverter.sh and tell your GUI launcher to use the new shell script.