I spent several evenings trying to figure out what is wrong with my mythexport. It just wouldn't import into itunes... They would jsut show up with an error in iTunes. So I installed handbrake-cli and then hacked at the mythexport daemon. All I really did was install handbrake-cli then change the line that executes ffmpeg and change it to work with handbrake.<br>
<br><br><br>This is what I did on my UBUNTU system (if you are using something else then you can find a different way to install handbrake-cli):<br><br><br>1) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots<br>
<br>
2) sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli <br>
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3) then 'sudo vi /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon'<br>
<br><br><br>
foreach (@args){<br>
if($_ =~ m/\/dev\/null/){<br>
$_ = "nice -n19 ffmpeg -i $filename $_";<br>
}<br>
else{<br>
<b> $_ = "nice -n19 HandBrakeCLI -i $filename -o '$newfilename' --preset=\"iPhone & iPod Touch\" 2>&1";<br>
</b># ADD THE LINE ABOVE AND ADD A HASH TO THE ONE BELOW <br>
# $_ = "nice -n19 ffmpeg -i $filename $_ '$newfilename' 2>&1";<br>
}<br>
}<br>
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then restart mythexport 'sudo /etc/init.d/mythexport restart'<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:34 AM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> 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 class="im">On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:54:10PM +1000, Christopher Kerr wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Nicolas Will <<a href="mailto:nico@youplala.net">nico@youplala.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 02:34 -0500, Douglas Wagner wrote:<br>
> >> I am intrigued sir! :)<br>
> ><br>
> > Don't be<br>
><br>
> >><br>
> >> So basically this is "download/compile this thing and it will xcode<br>
> >> what you<br>
> >> need for you."<br>
> ><br>
> > Yes, it takes any file, even DVDs, and spit a directly usable file for<br>
> > your iPod Touch/iPhone via iTunes or whatever (gtkpod, etc...).<br>
> >><br>
> >> is that basically what I'm hearing?<br>
> ><br>
> > Yes, very straightforward.<br>
><br>
> You'll want to use Mythlink.pl (<br>
> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl</a> ) to create some human-readable<br>
> filenames first. Then you can easily feed those through handbrake.<br>
><br>
> Personally, I think the handbrake iPod Touch preset is wrong - it<br>
> should be 320 pixels high and lock the aspect ratio, not 480 pixels<br>
> wide. Why does this matter? Well, for movies which are presented in<br>
> 2.11:1, fixing the width leaves you with only 228 pixels of vertical<br>
> resolution, wasting about a third of the screen. Fixing the height at<br>
> 320 still allows you to view the content that way if you so desire<br>
> (except slightly horizontally cropped, because the iPod Touch can't<br>
> handle videos wider than 640 pixels), but also allows you to view it<br>
> "zoomed in" without any stretching.<br>
<br>
</div> I ran into the same exact problem when my original more aggressive config<br>
led to a file that was "too wide" because it was a widescreen recording that<br>
was genuinely wider and not just anamorphic. It was an HD-PVR that was something<br>
like 850x480. When that scaled at the right aspect ratio, iTunes refused to sync<br>
it.<br>
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