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.

Mgrusin, try '-acodec aac' Some older versions of ffmpeg have different switches.--Bob.os 01:35, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

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>";

Problem with security enabled

I get the streaming to work correctly as long as I have no security enabled to MythWeb, but as soon as I enable the security in the .htaccess file I just get "Error playing movie" from the quicktime player. The rest of the MythWeb interface works with security enabled, so it is just the movie streaming that doesn't work.

The .htaccess file is configured with AuthType=Digest