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Martijn Morriën schrieb:
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type="cite">I'm trying to get myth2ipod working on my Fedora Core 4
(Jarod Wilson) MythTv 0.20 machine. All installs well, but when ffmpeg
starts converting it fails. I'm trying to fix this, but that is another
story.... <br>
<br>
Instead of fixing my problem I saw that you can also use VLC to convert
video files. <br>
VLC has rpm's available for easy installment and there is some good
documentation at: <a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/Ipod">http://wiki.videolan.org/Ipod
</a> for my conversion case. (I need to convert from PVR500: mpeg2 to
mp4)<br>
<br>
I was wondering if there are MythTv users out there that use VLC to
convert videos as a user task and what their experience is/was?<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
<br>
Martijn<br>
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During the last weeks nuvexport (which uses mythtranscode and ffmpeg)
did not work using the debian testing packages from
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.debian-multimedia.org">www.debian-multimedia.org</a>. Communication between mythtranscode and
ffmpeg was not working and ffmpeg failed to get any data from the FIFOs
mythtranscode set up. This problem was fixed a few days ago with
updated packages. This might be the reason for your problems with
ffmpeg?<br>
<br>
I do not recommend using vlc for transcoding. Quality is worse since it
aims on providing realtime transcoding for live streaming. Furthermore,
ffmpeg gives you a lot more codec options to control the transcoding
process. <br>
<br>
If myth2ipod won´t work try the following or a similar line (i do not
know the exact codec resolution requirements of an ipod) with directly
with any avi / mpg / nuv file:<br>
<br>
<i>ffmpeg -i <some_avi_mpg_nuv_file> -vcodec mpeg4 -vtag MP4V -b
300 -g 300 -bf 2 -s 352x288 -acodec mp2 -ab 80 -ac 2 output.avi</i><br>
<br>
If you can succesfully transcode and watch a video this way, file a bug
for myth2ipod, or, just wait a few days or weeks until somebody else
recognizes and corrects the error.<br>
<br>
greetings<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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