I've been looking for answers concerning the myth2ipod script and the apostrophe problem and have been coming up empty. I tried adding:<br><br> $filename =~ s/'//g;<br><br>to the myth2ipod script and get this output, and no .mov file generated.<br><br>$myth2ipod /video/tv 1206_20060204083000_20060204101500.nuv<br>Starting pass 1 of 2...<br>/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i /video/tv/1206_20060204083000_20060204101500.nuv -comment '1206_20060204083000_20060204101500.nuv' -title 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' -author 'MythTV - myth2ipod' -timestamp 'Sun Feb 5 05:40:15 GMT 2006<br>' -y -cropleft 10 -cropright 10 -croptop 8 -cropbottom 8 -deinterlace -vcodec xvid -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 384 -qmin 2 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -acodec aac -ab 96 -g 300 -pass 1 -passlogfile /tmp/myth2ipod_log -f mov /video/ipod/'Ferris_Bueller's_Day_Off--20060204'.pass1<br>FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard<br> configuration: --enable-xvid --enable-gpl --enable-faac
<br> libavcodec version: 51.1.0<br> libavformat version: 50.0.0<br> built on Jan 22 2006 07:00:40, gcc: 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)<br>Input #0, mpeg, from '/video/tv/1206_20060204083000_20060204101500.nuv':<br> Duration: 01:44:52.4, start: 0.333844, bitrate: 5190 kb/s<br> Stream #0.0[0x1e0], 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 480x480, 6000 kb/s<br> Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unable for find a suitable output format for 'Day'</span><br>sh: line 1: -y -cropleft 10 -cropright 10 -croptop 8 -cropbottom 8 -deinterlace -vcodec xvid -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 384 -qmin 2 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -acodec aac -ab 96 -g 300 -pass 1 -passlogfile /tmp/myth2ipod_log -f mov <span style="font-weight: bold;">/video/ipod/Ferris_Buellers_Day_Off--20060204.pass1: No such file or directory</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pass one failed</span><br>Pass
1 competed, starting pass 2 of 2...<br>/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i /video/tv/1206_20060204083000_20060204101500.nuv -comment '1206_20060204083000_20060204101500.nuv' -title 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' -author 'MythTV - myth2ipod' -timestamp 'Sun Feb 5 05:40:15 GMT 2006<br>' -y -cropleft 10 -cropright 10 -croptop 8 -cropbottom 8 -deinterlace -vcodec xvid -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 384 -qmin 2 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -acodec aac -ab 96 -g 300 -pass 2 -passlogfile /tmp/myth2ipod_log -f mov /video/ipod/'Ferris_Bueller's_Day_Off--20060204'.pass2<br>FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard<br> configuration: --enable-xvid --enable-gpl --enable-faac <br> libavcodec version: 51.1.0<br> libavformat version: 50.0.0<br> built on Jan 22 2006 07:00:40, gcc: 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)<br>Input #0, mpeg, from '/video/tv/1206_20060204083000_20060204101500.nuv':<br> Duration: 01:44:52.4, start: 0.333844, bitrate: 5190 kb/s<br> Stream
#0.0[0x1e0], 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 480x480, 6000 kb/s<br> Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s<br>Unable for find a suitable output format for 'Day'<br>sh: line 1: -y -cropleft 10 -cropright 10 -croptop 8 -cropbottom 8 -deinterlace -vcodec xvid -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 384 -qmin 2 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -acodec aac -ab 96 -g 300 -pass 2 -passlogfile /tmp/myth2ipod_log -f mov /video/ipod/Ferris_Buellers_Day_Off--20060204.pass2: No such file or directory<br>Pass two failed<br>Pass 2 competed, building video XML file<br>"Ferris_Bueller's_Day_Off--20060204" has been added to the feed.<br>XML file created for "Ferris_Bueller's_Day_Off--20060204" : Cleaning up temporary files<br>mv -f /video/ipod/'Ferris_Bueller's_Day_Off--20060204'.pass2 /video/ipod/'Ferris_Bueller's_Day_Off--20060204'.ipod.mov<br>mv: missing file argument<br>Try `mv --help' for more information.<br>Moving pass2 to final .mov failed<br>rm -f /tmp/myth2ipod_log*<br>rm -f
/video/ipod/'Ferris_Bueller's_Day_Off--20060204'.pass1<br>sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''<br>sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file<br>Removing pass 1 file failed<br>Ferris Bueller's Day Off is ready for your ipod<br><br>Other than the apostrophe glitch, the script has always worked. I am using FC4 and the latest myth2ipod script w/out using the transcode patch. <br><br>Is there a way to fix this apostrophe glitch in the myth2ipod script? <br><br>Since I can't get the script to work with apostrophes, I would like to do this manually w/out using the myth2ipod script. <br><br>Is it possible to run ffmpeg from the command line to convert the .nuv file to the ipod? I've tried various options (just to convert the .nuv, no .xml stuff) which resembled the myth2ipod script w/ negative results.<br><br>-Tony<p>
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