<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2007 3:26 PM, Fred Squires <<a href="mailto:fsquires@gmail.com">fsquires@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Nov 8, 2007 12:03 PM, Stephen Robertson <<a href="mailto:stephengrobertson@gmail.com">stephengrobertson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi there,<br>><br>> I wonder if anyone is having any success with exporting video to an
<br>> ipod, specifically in this case one of the nanos that can do video if<br>> that's relevant.<br>><br>> I have a setup working using the myth2ipod script which calls<br>> nuvexport for you. It successfully transcodes the file which I can
<br>> play with quicktime or on the ipod so thats all good.<br>><br>> However the quality isn't great, specifically there is a effect that<br>> looks to be something to do with the compression. It is most
<br>> pronounced in a scene where there is very little change it gets<br>> progressivly worse and the corrects itself, which leads to a jerky<br>> effect. If you want to have a look here is a sample output file.
<br>><br>> <a href="http://81.174.135.24/ipodfeed/1001_20071108163000.ipod.mp4" target="_blank">http://81.174.135.24/ipodfeed/1001_20071108163000.ipod.mp4</a><br>><br>> I don't really know enough about video to know what options if any
<br>> there are to fiddle with so any help would be appreciated.<br>><br>> Thanks<br>><br>> Stephen<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br><br></div></div>What resolution is it encoding at? The old version that I was using
<br>encoded at 320x240 or something similar, because that's all the<br>original video ipods could do. Trying upping it to 640x480, that's<br>what I did.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>It was supposed to be so Easy.
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I got this from the net somewhere and seems to work well for my ipod touch.<br><br>#!/bin/bash<br>rm -rf tmp.mpg* 2> /dev/null
<br>mythtranscode --mpeg2 -i $1 -o tmp.mpg<br>/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i tmp.mpg -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 128k -s 320x240 -vcodec h264 -b 300k -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me umh -subq 5 -trellis 1 -refs 1 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -g 300 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor
0.71 -bt 300k -maxrate 300k -bufsize 300k -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 15 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -level 30 -aspect 320:240 $2<br>rm -rf tmp.mpg* 2> /dev/null <br></div></div><br>