Video iPod via Linux?

Not exactly. However, some of the people over at the iPod Linux project have coded a video player for the iPod. According to their chart, it is supposed to work on all iPods with the exception of the 2G iPod mini; however, it also requires that you have Linux installed on your iPod. Since Linux doesn't yet work on the 4G iPods, I'm not really sure how *this* project is supposed to work on them. Unless of course, they are about to announce 4G iPod functionality this afternoon, in which case, I won't be posting at all, because I'll be busy playing with the Steve Jobs doll and installing Linux on my iPod.

The player will only handle 24-bit, uncompressed AVI files displayed at iPod-native screen resolution, so this isn't really a viable option for on the go video watching, but nevertheless, it is a really cool proof-of-concept hack showing the possibilities of what could be.

[via Engadget]

UPDATE: Looks like it does work on the 4G. Thanks to Tom for pointing this out in the comments. Thanks, Tom! 
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