[mythtv-users] MythExport - iPod Touch / iPhone Settings

[Brian Frost]

I spent several evenings trying to figure out what is wrong with my
mythexport. It just wouldn't import into itunes... They would jsut show up
with an error in iTunes. So I installed handbrake-cli and then hacked at the
mythexport daemon. All I really did was install handbrake-cli then change
the line that executes ffmpeg and change it to work with handbrake.



This is what I did on my UBUNTU system (if you are using something else then
you can find a different way to install handbrake-cli):


1) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots

2) sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli

3) then 'sudo vi /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon'



 foreach (@args){
        if($_ =~ m/\/dev\/null/){
            $_ = "nice -n19 ffmpeg -i $filename $_";
        }
        else{
*            $_ = "nice -n19 HandBrakeCLI -i $filename -o '$newfilename'
--preset=\"iPhone & iPod Touch\" 2>&1";
*# ADD THE LINE ABOVE AND ADD A HASH TO THE ONE BELOW
#          $_ = "nice -n19 ffmpeg -i $filename $_ '$newfilename' 2>&1";
        }
    }



then restart mythexport 'sudo /etc/init.d/mythexport restart'






On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:34 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:54:10PM +1000, Christopher Kerr wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 02:34 -0500, Douglas Wagner wrote:
> > >> I am intrigued sir! :)
> > >
> > > Don't be
> >
> > >>
> > >> So basically this is "download/compile this thing and it will xcode
> > >> what you
> > >> need for you."
> > >
> > > Yes, it takes any file, even DVDs, and spit a directly usable file for
> > > your iPod Touch/iPhone via iTunes or whatever (gtkpod, etc...).
> > >>
> > >> is that basically what I'm hearing?
> > >
> > > Yes, very straightforward.
> >
> > You'll want to use Mythlink.pl (
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl ) to create some human-readable
> > filenames first. Then you can easily feed those through handbrake.
> >
> > Personally, I think the handbrake iPod Touch preset is wrong - it
> > should be 320 pixels high and lock the aspect ratio, not 480 pixels
> > wide. Why does this matter? Well, for movies which are presented in
> > 2.11:1, fixing the width leaves you with only 228 pixels of vertical
> > resolution, wasting about a third of the screen. Fixing the height at
> > 320 still allows you to view the content that way if you so desire
> > (except slightly horizontally cropped, because the iPod Touch can't
> > handle videos wider than 640 pixels), but also allows you to view it
> > "zoomed in" without any stretching.
>
>     I ran into the same exact problem when my original more aggressive
> config
> led to a file that was "too wide" because it was a widescreen recording
> that
> was genuinely wider and not just anamorphic. It was an HD-PVR that was
> something
> like 850x480. When that scaled at the right aspect ratio, iTunes refused to
> sync
> it.
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