[mythtv-users] Can I mythexport without transcoding?

John Baab john.baab at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 00:53:47 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Scott Kidder <kidder.scott at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like a way to export my recordings to an RSS feed I could subscribe
>>> to from another computer. I want the exports to retain their default
>>> resolution / bitrate / etc and since they're MPG I assume they will play on
>>> other Windows / Linux / Mac machines without issue.
>>
>> You might want to look at the MythPodcaster project
>> (http://code.google.com/p/mythpodcaster/).  It can produce RSS feeds that
>> use symbolic links to refer to original recordings, or use FFmpeg to
>> transcode the original recordings.
>>
>> --Scott Kidder
>>
>>
>
> Scott, this looks really nice. I've run into some limitations with
> Mythexport now that I've started using it "in production" - The biggest one
> being that there's a limited number of podcasts one can set up. Ideally, and
> i know this may lead to podcast sprawl, I'd like to have the option to set
> up a podcast for each series I transcode. That way I could subscribe to each
> show individually. Is this something that MythPodcaster could do?
>
> Secondly, I'm on Ubuntu and I see that much of this was written for Fedora.
> Has anybody succesfully used this with Ubuntu and if so, any tips? I'll dive
> into an install on one of my test systems tomorrow, time permitting, but
> since I barely know what I'm doing I always look for a bit of help. :-)
>
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You could take MythExport's code and modify it to create the podcast
name from something like the show's name.  Its GPL'd do whatever you
want with it :)


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