[mythtv-users] Need some help transcoding for N900

[Eric Sharkey]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Tim Ashman <tim at ashmans.net> wrote:
>> Ok, so I'd like to transcode for my N900.  how exactly would I do this.  When
>> I open my file manager on my n900 I can see the shared media, I can browse it
>> and I can attempt to play it, however the format isn't supported.
>>
>> I'm assuming I could setup a transcoder that would create files compatible
>> with my N900, put them in a directory named say N900, then I could browse and
>> stream these onto my n900.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Last I checked (just covering my butt here), mythtv does not do on the
> fly transcoding.  You can setup myth to automatically transcode
> recording after they finish though.

True.  I think the closest it gets is probably something like Chase
Douglas' mythTV transcoding proxy:

http://trac.assembla.com/legend/wiki/MythTVTranscodeProxy

You might be able to use that with your N900, but I don't have any
direct experience with either the N900 or this proxy server.

Eric