How to Encode Videos for iPhone or iPod on any Unix using ffmpeg

Imagine what? I’m a big fan of the iPhone/iPod touch for mobile entertainment and since I’m also a big fan of the commandline, I of course want to use ffmpeg for video conversion.
But… I’ve been looking for a working ffmpeg config for serveral months now. There were issues with Medibuntu’s version of ffmpeg for Ubuntu Hardy (or at least I had a lot of issues), there were issues with iTunes’ crazy restrictions, there are dozens of (non) working ffmpeg configs on the web… so I just want to share my config with you. Read more…