[mythtv-users] Using Handbrake to transcode recordings to an iPhone

[Greg]

On 03/10/2011 06:19 PM, Harry Devine wrote:
> On 03/09/2011 01:04 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Harry Devine<lifter89 at comcast.net>   wrote:
>>> On 3/9/2011 12:50 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Harry Devine<lifter89 at comcast.net>     wrote:
>>>>> I found a thread yesterday that discussed this, so I thought I'd give it
>>>>> a try since I just got a Verizon iPhone, and thought it would be neat to
>>>>> bring a few recordings with me to watch during my lunch break at work.
>>>>> I installed Handbrake on my backend, and ran the following command:
>>>>>
>>>>> ./HandbrakeCLI -i<file>     -o<file>.mp4 --preset="iPhone&     iPod Touch"
>>>>>
>>>>> That created an mp4 file that I got down to my Windows box.  When I try
>>>>> to use iTunes to put it on to my iPhone,  I get an error saying that the
>>>>> file could not be imported since it cannot be played on the iPhone
>>>>> (something like that; I'm paraphrasing).
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone had much luck or success getting recordings transcoded for,
>>>>> and on to, an iPhone?  Specifically an iPhone 4?  The iPhone OS version
>>>>> is 4.2.6 if that matters.  I also have it jail-broken too.
>>>>>
>>>> Harry, I tried to do this using tools available on myth (although not
>>>> handbrake).  I found that it was better to install handbrake on my
>>>> windows machine, copy the file from my mythbox, and transcode on the
>>>> windows box.  The added benefit is that the Windows box is a quad-core
>>>> phenom and the mythbox is a single core sempron, so it likely works a
>>>> lot faster on the windows box and does not tie up myth's resources.
>>>>
>>>> The windows version has a gui frontend and presets for the iphone.  I
>>>> can transcode an hour HD recording to the iPhone in around real time.
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>>> Thanks!  I'll give that a shot.  But you are able to take the transcoded
>>> file and put it onto your iPhone via iTunes and play it, correct?
>>>
>> Yes.  I was also able to put them on an iPad (which was my primary
>> target).  I did it at the iPhone setting to conserve space and put
>> more movies on the iPad.  Works really well (plus the cool factor of
>> telling people that I converted these movies from my homebrew dvr, yet
>> another reason myth is a superior product).
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> I got this to work for me pretty well.  I used the windows GUI at first,
> but it took over 4 hours to transcode a recording.  When it was done, I
> was able to transfer it to my iPhone via iTunes.  I did notice that the
> file was an m4v file and not an mp4.  So,  I re-did the cli version on
> my backend and, wouldn't ya know it, it worked as well.  I did use the
> iPhone preset instead of "iPhone&  iPod Touch" preset.
>
> So my next step will be to script it and make a user job out of it.  One
> question with that though (and I can make this a seperate thread if it
> will help): I have 1 user job already which will run mythlink.pl to
> create human readable show name links.  Does Myth run each job in order,
> 1 at a time?  Or are they kicked off simultaneously?  I don't want to
> have the iPhone transcode going on while the mythlink.pl job is
> running.  Granted, the mythlink job is relatively fast.
>
> Just curious.  Thanks for the help, and for any answers on the job
> questions.
> Harry
>
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