[mythtv-users] ipod conversion trouble

[Fred Squires]

On 9/29/07, Jason Portwood <jason at wkrp.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get Mythtv to export to play videos to an ipod.
>
> I've followed the instructions with Myth2ipod but whenever I try to sync I
> get an error saying that the video "cannot be played on this ipod"
>
> What am I missing to get this working?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason

I was having problems getting myth2ipod to run so made the following change:
I changed the "Encode for Portable" section to this:

#
# Encode for Portable
#
sub EncodeIt {
        # Use nuvexport to do the work
        $cmd = "ffmpeg -i $ARGV[0]$ARGV[1] -f mov -b 1800 -maxrate
2500 -vcodec xvid -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -s 640x480$
        print $cmd."\n";
        if(system($cmd)) { print "Nuvexport encoding seems to have failed\n"; }
}

I removed the generating cutlist part and the mp4box part and switched
from using nuvexport to ffmpeg.  The files exported this way work
great on my  iPod Classic.
I don't think I had to make any more changes to get it to work, but
I'm not 100% sure.
-- 
It was supposed to be so Easy.