[mythtv-users] MythPodcaster: New Tool to automatically create Podcasts of MythTV Recordings

[George Galt]

Scott:

I'm trying to get started with MythPodCaster.  Do you know if I need
to use the Sun Java SDK or can I use the open source version that
comes with Fedora?  Also, on a first try, I got the following error
message:

2010-07-20 11:05:32,425 ERROR [MythPodcasterTranscodingThread-1]
transcode.FeedFileAccessorImpl (FeedFileAccessorImpl.java:309) - Error
while transcoding, setting link to null
java.io.IOException: Cannot create tmp dir
[/var/cache/tomcat6/temp/-7f5c1896:129f0635b5e:-7fcc]


I've set the owner of /var/cache/tomcat6/temp to "tomcat".  Is there
something I'm missing?

Also, I cannot find the qt-faststart binary anywhere -- the link
provided from http://multimedia.cx/eggs/improving-qt-faststart/  to
the mplayer source no longer works, and qt-faststart is no longer
contained in the svn repository of tools.  Is it needed?

George

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Scott Kidder <kidder.scott at gmail.com> wrote:
> I frequently use podcast in iTunes to keep up with news and music.  I
> decided to create a Java web application that automatically generates
> podcast RSS feeds for select MythTV Series recordings.  The application
> accesses the MythTV database to identify recorded programs and their
> metadata.  The RSS feeds link to video files stored in a location served up
> by Apache HTTPD.  The video files are FFmpeg-encoded copies of the originals
> in the MythTV system.  When new content is finished recording, it is
> automatically transcoded and the RSS feed is updated.  Likewise, when
> content is deleted from MythTV, the transcoded copy is also deleted and the
> RSS feed is updated.  The Java web application allows you to select which
> MythTV recordings (displayed by series) you'd like to have RSS feeds created
> for.
> I've been using it for the last week without any issues.  The video quality
> is excellent on the iPod Touch.  The feeds show up great in iTunes, complete
> with guide data for program title, description, channel name, and recording
> date.
>
> You can download MythPodcaster and see screenshots here:
> http://urlgrey.net/MythPodcaster/
> Please let me know what you think!  I hope others find it as useful as I do.
> --
> Scott Kidder
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