[mythtv-users] Need some help transcoding for N900

Tim Ashman tim at ashmans.net
Mon Jan 11 14:20:49 UTC 2010


On Sunday 10 January 2010 08:54:15 pm Jeff Bryner wrote:
> FWIW I used this to get video from myth to my n95 in working order. I
> just got a n900 and haven't had a chance to see if this still works,
> but it's worth a shot:
>
> ffmpeg -i  mythfilename.mpg  -f mp4 -r 30 -vcodec mpeg4 -b 384 -qmin 3
> -qmax 5 -g 300 -acodec libfaac -ar 44100 -ab 192 -s 320x240 -aspect
> 16:9 -title "YourTitleHere" nokiaoutfilename.mp4 -v -1
>
> Probably should change the aspect ratio at least!
>
> Jeff.

Ok, so I should make this my transcode command line.  I will give it a try. 

Thank you.

tim


>
> Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> says:
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> 
> > wrote: 
> >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Tim Ashman <tim at ashmans.net> wrote:
> >>> Ok, so I'd like to transcode for my N900.  how exactly would I do
> >>> this.  When
> >>> I open my file manager on my n900 I can see the shared media, I
> >>> can browse it
> >>> and I can attempt to play it, however the format isn't supported.
> >>>
> >>> I'm assuming I could setup a transcoder that would create files
> >>> compatible with my N900, put them in a directory named say N900, then I
> >>> could browse and
> >>> stream these onto my n900.
> >>>
> >>> Any help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Last I checked (just covering my butt here), mythtv does not do on the
> >> fly transcoding.  You can setup myth to automatically transcode
> >> recording after they finish though.
> >
> > True.  I think the closest it gets is probably something like Chase
> > Douglas' mythTV transcoding proxy:
> >
> > http://trac.assembla.com/legend/wiki/MythTVTranscodeProxy
> >
> > You might be able to use that with your N900, but I don't have any
> > direct experience with either the N900 or this proxy server.
> >
> > Eric



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