[mythtv-users] new video2ipod script released!

[Jonathan Larson]

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brad DerManouelian
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] new video2ipod script released!

On Mar 4, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> Thanks, Greg. I was able to successfully create an RSS feed with this
> change. Unfortunately, iTunes claims it's not a valid Podcast feed. I
> guess maybe it's looking for some specific tag(s) or something. I'll
> try to figure that part out or wait for someone more knowledgeable
> about podcasts to jump in with a solution.

Ok, so it appears that iTunes doesn't like the fact that the feed
created has a blank line before the xml declaration. Lame. Also, I
*think* it's complaining about the .php extension. Lame again. Also,
the file names aren't URL-encoded so the feed that is created points
to invalid URL's unless I pre-process the video file names, but then
my feed displays with URL-encoded names for all my videos. Lame thrice.

So I'm still in the market for a script that will see a bunch of
videos in a directory, pull out the metadata from the video (I'll want
my file names to be CHANID_STARTTIME.mp4 so they are URL-friendly and
I want to build the xml from the embedded metadata) and build an
iTunes-friendly video podcast. I'll work on something this weekend if
no one has any other suggestions.

Thanks,

Brad

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I've combined myth2ipod and pdatranscode.pl to do something like this for the school where I work. It can place the videos in the same dir or subdirs based on any attribute. It then creates XMLs for each video and an rss feed a la myth2ipod. There a lot of other bells and whistles that I've added for my use, and the RSS feed is written for VB(IIS) instead of PHP, but if you are interested let me know.

Jon