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[wififun]

I am stoked so many are playing with this. Very cool!. Pegli has started a mythweb interface, and I hope to have some time this week to help on that end. I have been dusting of the cobwebs in the php part of my brain.

cortez, yea, they play great on the iPod. Actually that is where I started. The first thing was to find a ffmpeg mencoder line that outputted a playable file. Everything else built from there.

thelynches, soon I hope to get this centralized. I will see about setting up up some space and putting this in a downloadable format so that updates are always available, and no more cut and pasting. This should solve some of the other problems. UPDATE: i have setup:

[wififun]

the script and install directions are up at:
http://myth2ipod.com/

Check out the change log for new features.

[steff]

First, I have to say Great job with this! It really is very smooth when it comes to both myth and itunes. The script works brilliantly, and it generates the xml just fine, BUT:

ffmpeg however does not seem to recognize the format of MythTVs transcoded .nuv files.
I don't have a happauge-based hardware encoder card, but instead an ordinary saa7134 tuner card, so I use MythTVs transcoding to automatically reduce the .nuv files to manageable sizes, as well as to cut out the commercials from the files.

here's what happens when i try to encode using mpg2ipod (from mythbackend.log):

[wififun]

[stealthboy]

There are some slight differences in the filename conventions for the newer builds of Myth off of Subversion. The filenames no longer have the endtime, so the section of Perl that splits up the $start and $end vars are just a bit off. For the $start var you just need to add a substr() in the assignment to pull out the first 14 chars of $file[1]. FYI.

[wififun]

stealthboy, could you post a couple of the filenames for me please. Thanks for the input.

[stealthboy]

[jamesarm97]

Is there any way to detect a widescreen formated video and either add the black bars at the top or (preferably) chop / crop the width to 320 (4:3)? I am recording alot of hdtv shows and when I convert them using this script they playback squished because of the aspect ratio. The script squishes the 16:9 video into a 4:3 screen. I think because of the small screen just cropping the extra info on the sides of the video would be best instead of having black bars at the top and bottom.

Any update for the new mythtv filename formats yet?

Thanks,
James

[wififun]

James.. I do know what you mean. The widescreen stuff gets copressed on the sides, and the letter-boxed content gives up so much screen space to the black bars that on such a small screen it really stands out.
The quickest thing you can do, is create a copy of the script and call it something like myth2ipod.hd. Edit the $encodeopt variable and adjust the crop options. If it is true HD 16:9 content, then just crop the left and right a little more until you get what is acceptable. If it is letter-boxed content, then you need to crop the top, bottom, and the sides more. Then set this new script as a second user job, and run this one for your hd or letter-boxed content.
I am working on a way to detect the format, and give the user options for cropping and even cutting out the flagged commercials. Beta .9 will include a few bug fixes including the new filename fix, and 1.0 has some cool things on the todo list. .9 should be up Friday sometime.

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[cortez]

OK I installed myth2ipod and can set it to run manually. I set up the user job, but it doesnt seem to activate the transcode - it just shows up in my mythweb status window as "queued" and when i run ps it doesnt show up.

the user job command i'm using is /usr/local/bin/myth2ipod "%DIR%" "%FILE%"

[wififun]

when you say you can run it manually, does that mean you can run it from the command line by giving it something like:

[mdrovdahl]