Talk:Streaming to iPod touch or iPhone

If you're having a problem post here and I'll try and help.

When experimenting to write this page I basically followed the following steps before getting everything right:

1. Perform the transcoding and see if it plays well in mplayer
2. Put the file into the root of the web-server, update mime-type and see if it plays on iPod
3. Put the file back into the myth directory, link from data/recordings/ under mythweb, and see if it can find it
4. Update php files to detect/link to correct files.

When I manually execute the ffmpeg line in mythipod.sh, it fails with:

 mgrusin@Bender:/usr/local/bin$ ffmpeg -i /video/1048_20071124190000.mpg -acodec libfaac -ab ${abitrate} -s ${width}x${height} 
 -vcodec mpeg4 -b ${vbitrate} -flags +aic+mv4+trell -mbd 2 -cmp
 
 FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg 
 --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-xvid 
 --enable-x264 --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
 libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
 built on Nov 17 2007 21:23:57, gcc: 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
 Input #0, mpeg, from '/video/1048_20071124190000.mpg':
 Duration: 01:59:38.0, start: 0.289367, bitrate: 5205 kb/s
 Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 480x480, 6000 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r)
 Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
 Unknown codec 'libfaac'

"ffmpeg -version" reports "--enable libfaac", and libfaac0 appears to be installed (this is on mythbuntu). What else should I check or try? Thanks for any help! Mgrusin 04:12, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm wondering, will this work with storage groups?--Bob.os 22:03, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but you would probably do better to put the files in a specific location. So you could set the output of the transcoding stop to a known location, then modify the PHP page (and expire script) to look in those directories specifically

In myth2ipod.sh add a directory that your webuser can see with something like

   ipoddirectory=/srv/www/htdocs/ipodvideos/

and then at the end where the ffmpeg command is, change this:

 "${directory}/${file}.mp4" 

to this:

 "${ipoddirectory}/${file}.mp4" 

The expire script would be a tiny bit more complicated as you'd have to, for each file in your ipoddirectory check if there was a corresponding file in any of the directories.

You would also change your php file from this:

   if(file_exists($show->filename . '.mp4')){
       echo '<a href="/mythweb/data/recordings/' . $file . '.mp4" target="_blank">Watch</a> ';
       echo "</b>";

to something like this:

   if(file_exists('/srv/www/htdocs/ipodvideos/'. $file . '.mp4')){
       echo '<a href="/srv/www/htdocs/ipodvideos/'. $file . '.mp4" target="_blank">Watch</a> ';
       echo "</b>";