<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Michael Van Donselaar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael-list@vandonselaar.org">michael-list@vandonselaar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, 25 May 2010 10:53:22 -0700, you wrote:<br>
<br>
>On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Scott Alfter <<a href="mailto:scott@alfter.us">scott@alfter.us</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I just knocked together some shell scripts that transcode recordings and<br>
>> dump<br>
>> them onto a NAS box that serves them up over HTTP or UPnP. I can view<br>
>> these<br>
>> recordings on my iPhone with either Safari or PlugPlayer; an iPad should<br>
>> offer<br>
>> similar functionality. I have all recordings transcoded for streaming over<br>
>> the<br>
>> LAN automatically, so that the iPhone can serve as a "poor man's frontend"<br>
><br>
><br>
>I'm doing something similar with a MythTV add-on I wrote called<br>
>MythPodcaster (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/mythpodcaster/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/mythpodcaster/</a>). MythPodcaster uses<br>
>FFMpeg to transcode many of my recordings into several output encodings.<br>
>Some of those encodings use the Apple HTTP Live Streaming format, which<br>
>enables automatic stream switching to adapt to changing bandwidth.<br>
>MythPodcaster renders RSS feeds that are easy to browse within Safari on the<br>
>iPhone and iPad.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Or even easier to subcribe in iTunes and sync to your iPad.<br>
<br>
Scott: Thank you for such an awesome package! I found it when I was<br>
googling for ffmpeg recipes for transcoding.<br>
<br>
I had planned to manually transcode some of my favorite shows, but<br>
after 10 minutes of installing and configuring MythPodCaster, I simply<br>
sync in the morning, and I have last night's shows on my iPad.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the feedback, and I'm glad to hear that you found it useful!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
After a bit of experimentation, I think this is my preference for an<br>
iPad:<br>
<br>
<encoderArguments>-vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -vpre ipod640 -b 900k<br>
-acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ac 2 -ar 44100 -s 720x480 -threads 0 -f ipod<br>
-y</encoderArguments><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'll make use of this setting when my iPad arrives in 2 weeks :)</div><div><br></div><div>--Scott Kidder</div></div>