On 11/3/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Sherman</b> <<a href="mailto:msherman@dsbox.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">msherman@dsbox.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
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<br>Having just bought a new iPod, this is a killer feature that should<br>be implemented. I can and will help with coding. I figured it could<br>be part of the transcoding code already, and add a new transcoding<br>setting for mpeg-4 (that works with the video iPod - no need to use H.
<br>234 which may be iffy on Linux). We would need to transcode it down<br>to maybe 400kbps, 320x240, and it should work just fine. So since<br>you can already set up transcoding automagically, it would mean these<br>steps, in think:
<br><br>1) Add a per-scheduled recording transcode option so you can set your<br>particular video to always dump out the newer iPod-compatible MP4.<br>For example, I may want all eps in my recording profile for<br>"Battlestar Galactica" to automagically convert, but not all my other
<br>recording schedules.<br><br>2) Add a small post-process step to copy the resultant file somewhere<br>(a web server, so maybe just use a NFS or SMB solution with mounted<br>drives for now).<br><br>3) Add another post-process step to then update an RSS feed file,
<br>again on a web server or just locally via NFS or SMB share.<br><br>4) It'd be cool to then add a button in mythweb next to each<br>recording schedule entry so you can "subscribe" to a show and it<br>would set all this up and get the right RSS url right into iTunes.
<br>How cool would that be?<br><br>I think that's it in a nutshell. Can we iterate on a good list of<br>objectives so we can break up the work and get started? I'm really<br>excited about this.<br><br>-Mike<br></blockquote>
</div><br>Some of these are already complete.<br>Go to <a href="http://myth2ipod.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://myth2ipod.com/</a> and check it out.<br clear="all"><br>
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