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So, I managed to stay awake thus far

I found an awesome way to install ffmpeg for universal video conversions. Most sites try to get you to recompile and jump through a bunch of hoops to get things like AAC audio codecs, and other such things working. By using the Medibuntu repositories I was able to simply type sudo apt-get install ffmpeg and everything just worked. Best way I have every seen to install ffmpeg with full codec support. I had previously installed libfaac and several other libraries. The full list of what I had installed is:

sudo apt-get install liblame-dev libfaad2-dev libfaac-dev libxvidcore4-dev

	liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libx264-dev

The repository information for Medibuntu is available here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#head-7486ed038a9becc1dff10a24cc07a38a00d70e9f

Hope this helps someone out in the future. My plan is to script auto conversions of my TV shows each night so that I can stream them to my iPhone at school. I’ll let you know how it works. I just streamed one I had previously converted and it looks great.