[mythtv-users] Transcoding shows for Sony PSP

[Bill Bradley]

do you know if the psp option is still broken is ffmpeg cvs?

On Apr 3, 2005 11:33 PM, James L. Paul <james at mauibay.net> wrote:
> Byron Poland wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've got this working with ffmpeg under linux.  here is a link to my
> > blog where I posted the steps, and the ffmpeg command:
> >
> > http://tube013.org/blogs/thoughts.php?title=sony_psp_video_conversion_in_linux
> >
> > I have links to some ffmpeg deb's for ubuntu there as well.
> 
> Thanks for the info. I'm using SuSE on amd64, but had no problems
> building the 03/03/05 cvs snapshot of ffmpeg.
> 
> > You need a pretty recent ffmpeg cvs build for the -f psp to work (note
> > that around the end of march some of the cvs snapshots were broken as
> > far as -f psp was concerned).
> >
> > Also you need to compile ffmpeg with faac support so it can encode the
> > aac audio track the psp needs.
> >
> > here are my configure options for ffmpeg:
> >
> > byron at harryhood ~ $ ffmpeg
> > ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4744, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
> >   configuration:  --build i386-linux --enable-gpl --enable-vhook
> > --enable-pthreads --enable-pp --enable-zlib --enable-vorbis
> > --enable-a52 --enable-dts --disable-debug --disable-mmx
> > --enable-dc1394 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad
> > --enable-vorbis --enable-ogg --enable-mp3lame --prefix=/usr
> >   built on Mar 29 2005 11:43:17, gcc: 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)
> 
> I was more sparse, I just used --enable-faac and left everything else at
> default. Then again, I'm not replacing my existing version of ffmpeg by
> installing this one, I'm running it out of the build directory for now.
> 
> I see what you mean about the glitchy artifacts at the beginning of the
> video. Doesn't seem to cause any other problems, but not elegant. I hope
> fixes for this and the titling feature get into the main project, I
> don't have time or background to dig into the win32 code for a patch.
> 
> > hope that helps some.
> 
> Certainly shaved some time off hunting for this info, thanks again.
> 
> What I'm hacking is crude. I'm creating a Myth recording profile called
> PSP, and inserting a simple check that runs when a recording ends. I can
> then simply set the recording profile to PSP for the shows I want to
> have the option to watch on the device. When a show is recorded using
> the PSP profile, it backgrounds an appropriate ffmpeg process to
> transcode it. This way I have a directory with a bunch of shows always
> ready to load and watch on my PSP.
> 
> I'm sure there's a simpler or more sensible method for doing this type
> of thing. This should work for now though. :)
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>