[mythtv-users] MythTV -> RSS -> PSP automation

David Leinbach david at leinbach.name
Fri Jun 15 20:26:57 UTC 2007


Thank you for posting this.  I plan to try this out this weekend
(unfortunately I'm not home tonight so it will have to wait.

David

On 6/15/07, greg at nodecam.com <greg at nodecam.com> wrote:
> As mentioned in a previous thread, I had a goal of being able to watch
> "The Daily Show" and "SportsCentre" on the bus ride to work every morning
> without requiring any manual intervention.
>
> I have accomplished the goal!  Woo Hoo!
>
> What is does:
>
> - Automatically commercial flag, cut and reencode to a PSP compatible format
> - Publish those files as an RSS feed which the PSP can subscribe to
>
> Here's how it's done:
>
> 1) I created a script based heavily on the RemoveCommercial script found
> on the wiki:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Script_-_RemoveCommercials
>
> See the attached file (psprssencode.sh) for what I came up with.
>
> I then linked that in as UserJob1 with the following command:
> /usr/local/bin/psprssencode.sh %DIR% %FILE% %CHANID% %STARTTIME% '%TITLE%'
> '%SUBTITLE%'
>
> There's one piece of config in the script - where you want the files to be
> dropped.  That directory has to be web accessible.
>
> Also in that directory, I dropped the tds.php file attached and an SVN
> copy of feedcreator.class.php (available at
> http://feedcreator.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/feedcreator/include/feedcreator.class.php?view=markup
> ) into the same directory as the MP4 files.
>
> I pointed the PSP at the "tds.php" file on my webserver, and subscribed.
> Voila!
>
> There are a couple of config items in "tds.php" - specifically the show
> name and a path to an icon for the feed.  I could have put them as
> parameters, but I'm not PHP security guy, and I didn't want to chance
> screwing it up and providing a big potential security problem.  If you put
> "MP4" in as $ShowName, it'll expose all MP4 files in the directory via
> RSS.  Use as you see fit.
>
> End result - it works, but I haven't been able to take advantage of it
> yet.  First night, I screwed up and left the PSP inside the RSS feeds
> area, so it didn't run the scheduled download.  Then last night, I'd
> played with the time to see if the auto-download would trigger, and I
> forgot to change it back to 6AM.  I have every confidence that it'll work
> for me in the future though.
>
> The ffmpeg commandline that is in psprssencode.sh requires a fairly new
> version of ffmpeg with aac and h264 support.  If it doesn't work for you,
> try changing "-vlevel 13" to "-level 13"  Also, it requires a fairly
> current firmware revision on your PSP.  I'm running 3.40 OE-A, but I think
> that the official firmwares >=3.30 should all work just fine too.
>
> If anyone has any questions about what I did, or how to get it working,
> fire away, and I'll do what I can to answer them.
>
> Greg
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