Revision as of 00:16, 11 August 2008

How to transcode video for iPod, iPhone, PSP, PDA, or other portable devices. There are a lot of different ways to transcode video for use on portable devices, both automated and manually. Some of these methods may be out of date and no longer work.

nuvexport

nuvexport is a utility that can be run from the commandline. You select the output format, the videos you'd like to transcode, and it does it for you. It does not automatically transcode for you, however

See Nuvexport.

mythtranscode

mythTV can automatically transcode videos after recording them using mythtranscode. It can only transcode to RTJPEG and MPEG4, however, which may not be what your device requires.

mythnuv2mkv

See Mythnuv2mkv.

nuv2avi

See Nuv2avi.

3gp Video

Transcoding video to 3gp format for mobile phones

See Transcoding into a 3gp Video.

video2ipod

a perl script that can be installed as a User-Job to automatically transcode video for the iPod. May work for other portable devices as well.

http://wiki.1.jeffornot.com:8000/index.php/Video2ipod

Other iPod exporting Scripts

Here are some alternatives to video2ipod

http://myth2ipod.com/
http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_MythTV_to_iPod

OTA HDTV to DVD with AC3 stream copy transcode Script

#!/bin/sh

# Step 1, generate DVD resolution file from HDTV content, preserving AC3 audio streams
/usr/bin/nice -19 /usr/bin/mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg \
-mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -vf scale=720:-3,harddup -lavcopts \ 
vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=3000:keyint=15 /myth/tv/$1 -o /myth/tv/$1.tmp

# Step 2, replace orig HDTV file with transcoded DVD file
/usr/bin/nice -19 mv /myth/tv/$1.tmp /myth/tv/$1

# Step 3, clean up MPEG2 sync issues and using mythtranscode.  Output is a .tmp file.
/usr/bin/nice -19 /usr/bin/mythtranscode --mpeg2 -i /myth/tv/$1 --showprogress

# Step 4, replace DVD file with cleaned DVD file
/usr/bin/nice -19 mv /myth/tv/$1.tmp /myth/tv/$1

# OPTIONAL Step 5, Flag commercials on final file
/usr/bin/nice -19 /usr/bin/mythcommflag --file /myth/tv/$1

#Only thing to sort out is updating the MySQL DB for the new filesize after transcoding
# to reflect the new file size. Any ideas on how to do this easily??