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• An iPod-like interface
• Video playback with sound
• Support for AAC, MP3 and basic OGG playback (4G & 5G Music Player Daemon is malfunctional, but can be fixed).
• Many games, including TuxChess, Bluecube (Tetris clone), Chopper, StepMania (a Dance Dance Revolution clone) and more.
• Recording through audio jack at much higher quality than Apple's firmware
• Ability to play the games Doom and Doom II, as well as games for the Nintendo Game Boy (with appropriate add-on software, for instance iBoy)and Game Boy Advance (this is unstable and in Beta stages)
• Color scheme support
• Many emulators, such as iBoy (Gameboy Emulator), iNES (Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator), iDarcNES (port of the multiple system emulator DarcNES), and iGPSP ( Gameboy Advance emulator).

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Compatibility

A list of working/non-working iPods;

¹ - Serial is required for the remote to work.

² - Currently podzilla accesses the piezo directly - there is no kernel driver.

³ - Only recording via microphone works on these models, no line in.

⁴ - A basic battery meter and deep sleep functions are available.

⁵ - Neither USB nor FireWire communication drivers exist yet for these models.

⁶ - February 2007 5.5G iPods (Brighter backlight, AKA 5.1/5.5/5th Gen Enhanced) work with a special kernel developed by DataGhost. You can install manually, or with AriX's installer, the iPodLinux Manager. 5.5G Page

As of August 5, 2006, only the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation iPods are officially supported by iPodLinux, although newer generations are also partially compatible[1]. The iPodLinux project does not plan support for iPod shuffles due to the lack of a GCC compiler for the Shuffle's DSP57000 core, as well as the fact that the iPod Shuffle lacks a screen. While later generations work fine for many uses of iPodLinux, not all features work; these later generations will not be officially supported by the project until most or all features from the earlier iPods work on them. Installers are in the process of being made. As of now, there is Installer 2.3 for Windows or Linux which can install on any generation iPod (except for the iPod shuffle and iPod Nano 2nd generation). As of March 11, 2007, iPodLinux does not work on the new iPod firmware included with the second generation iPod nano, and installer 2 cannot be used to install iPodLinux on 5.5th generation iPods. 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Mandelbrot set in iPod Linux

Arguably one of the project's more notable accomplishments is its Video Player, released months before rumors about Apple's Video iPod began to spread. This video player only plays uncompressed AVI files, which are basically just a series of bitmap formatted frames with an audio overlay that commonly loses sync with the video output. A new compression technique called MoviePod, released in 2006, enables people to put more video content on their iPod. This function continues to be developed and is a useful function for users of older iPods (especially Nano users that, with the help of iPod Linux, can get an extremely small media center that can be held in the palm of their hand)[2]. Image File history File links Ipodlinux-mandelpod. ... Image File history File links Ipodlinux-mandelpod. ... Initial image of a Mandelbrot set zoom sequence with continuously colored environment The Mandelbrot set is a set of points in the complex plane that forms a fractal. ... Video player can refer to the following: Hardware video players: VCR Laserdisc player DVD player Software Video Players: Windows Media Player MPlayer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... AVI, an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992, as part of the Video for Windows technology. ... For the use of the term raster in radio regulation, see frequency raster. ... It has been suggested that Media Server be merged into this article or section. ...

podzilla 2, the second generation of podzilla, and commonly known as pz2, is currently in development and has recently superseded the original version of podzilla. It includes several new features, most notably modularity; users can install new applications, such as those below, without recompiling all of podzilla. // Overview podzilla is the default GUI used in iPodLinux. ...

Installer 2

One of the iPodLinux developers has developed a new installer, dubbed "installer 2."[3] The new installer can install iPodLinux on any iPod except the Second Generation iPod nano and the updated 5th generation iPod.ipod.

See also

• Rockbox - open source firmware for MP3 players including iPod
• Mini Linux

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External links

• Official website
• An installation guide for beginners
• Ipod и Linux in Russia (Russian ipodlinux) ipodlinux.net.ru
• Accelerate Your Mac review of iPodLinux
• The Official iPod Linux Forums
• Slashdot: Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack (on dumping the 4g's flash for development work)
• Video of iPodLinux playing a music video
• Another Video playing a video
• Versiontracker: 4G iPod Linux Installer (Requires Mac formatted iPod, Mac OS X)