Encoding MythTV content to iPod

Problem
You're eating dinner by yourself again, and you're bored out of your mind. Boy wouldn't it be nice if you had that South Park you recorded last night on your iPod so you do something while waiting for them to burn your food?

Setup
Required tools:

ffmpeg (use flag) nuvexport mythtv AtomicParsley

Emerge the required tools. Once they are installed, nuvexport needs to be configured

For nuvexport 0.5 copy .mythtv/config.xml to /etc/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml Then create the following files and place them into the mythtv user's home directory.

File:

~/nuvexportrc.xml

The base shell script for encoding videos:

~/ipodencode.sh

You may want to limit only one encoding at a time. You want to do this even if you have a multi-core machine, as ffmpeg will use as many cores as possible when encoding. To do this, all you need to do is: ~/ipodencodermgr.sh

Setup mythtv to use handle this user job
Use mythtv-setup to add a user job:

Don't forget to set the executable flag on both scripts. Also, if you want status on the current job (only works when limited to 1 encoding at a time):

How to Use It
Load your cut points and adjust them as need be Use a lossless transcoder (if possible, but you can use a lossy transcoder if need be) to remove these portions of the recording Run your new user job Load the recording on your iPod and go

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