I too got files moved over to my Pocket PC, but took a little different tack.
I first got the Myth2ipod to work. (And BTW, Great Job Wififun. My daughter is enjoying her iPod video very much. The PodCast is a wonderful tool. I wish there was a "PPCCast!")
I tried copying the created myth2ipod *.mov file to my Pocket PC. I had installed The Core Pocket Media Player onto my Pocket PC, but the *.mov wouldn't play as is, because of a license issue with AAC Audio encoding. I reviewed the ffmpeg site and found it could be configured with MP3 Audio Encoding. I reinstalled (over top of the existing installation done earlier for myth2ipod) the ffmpeg program enabling an additional audio codec. Following the same steps as those on the myth2ipod.com site, I changed a couple items to allow the resulting *.mov to be played on my Pocket PC.
In step 1 of the instructions on the myth2ipod site, I changed:
This:
./configure --enable-xvid --enable-gpl --enable-faac
To This:
./configure --enable-xvid --enable-gpl --enable-faac --enable-mp3lame
In step 2, added a line:
From:
wget
http://myth2ipod.com/myth2ipod.txt
nano myth2ipod.txt
chmod +x myth2ipod.txt
mv myth2ipod.txt /usr/local/bin/myth2ipod
To:
wget
http://myth2ipod.com/myth2ipod.txt
mv myth2ipod.txt myth2ppc.txt
nano myth2ppc.txt
When editing the user variables, I also changed the encoding options to meet the Pocket PC's needs. My user variables and changes are:
my $portable = "ppc";
my $feedfile = "/myth/PocketPC/feed.php";
my $feedpath = "/myth/PocketPC/";
my $wwwloc = "/var/www/";
my $feedurl = "http://mymythbackendipaddress/ppcfeed/";
Note about my user variables:
1. Change mymythbackendipaddress to your actual IP address.
2. You'll need to create the Feedpath directory under /myth
3. I also created a Symbolic Link under my root webpage directory to point to the /myth/PocketPC/ directory.
I changed the my encodeoptions:
From:
my $encodeopt = "-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";
To:
my $encodeopt = "-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 mp3 -ab 96 -g 300";
I also changed:
From:
sub DoPassOne {
$cmd = "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i $directory/$file -comment '$file' -title '$title' -author 'MythTV - myth2ipod' -timestamp '$rightnow' $encodeopt -pass 1 -passlogfile /tmp/myth2ipod_log -f mov $feedpath'$filename'.pass1";
To:
sub DoPassOne {
$cmd = "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i $directory/$file -comment '$file' -title '$title' -author 'MythTV - myth2ppc' -t
imestamp '$rightnow' $encodeopt -pass 1 -passlogfile /tmp/myth2ppc_log -f mov $feedpath'$filename'.pass1";
and From:
sub DoPassTwo {
$cmd = "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i $directory/$file -comment '$file' -title '$title' -author 'MythTV - myth2ipod' -timestamp '$rightnow' $encodeopt -pass 2 -passlogfile /tmp/myth2ipod_log -f mov $feedpath'$filename'.pass2";
To:
sub DoPassTwo {
$cmd = "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i $directory/$file -comment '$file' -title '$title' -author 'MythTV - myth2ppc' -timestamp '$rightnow' $encodeopt -pass 2 -passlogfile /tmp/myth2ppc_log -f mov $feedpath'$filename'.pass2";
And one last edit:
From:
$cmd = "rm -f /tmp/myth2ipod_log*";
To:
$cmd = "rm -f /tmp/myth2ppc_log*";
I also edited the GenerateRSS subroutines, but since this isn't for a PodCast, it doesn't matter.
Finish up Step 2 in the instructions with:
chmod +x myth2ppc.txt
mv myth2ppc.txt /usr/local/bin/myth2ppc
In Step 3, I change it:
From:
/usr/local/bin/myth2ipod "%DIR%" "%FILE%"
To:
/usr/local/bin/myth2ppc "%DIR%" "%FILE%"
and gave it a name called "Encode for Pocket PC"
I added my new User Job to be performed after commercial flagging (Step 4).
You can skip Steps 5 since it pretains to iPods.
Also, don't forget to go into the TV setups and Check "Allow User Job to be run on this backend" or your jobs will stay in queue and not run.
After the file is transcoded, you'll be able to go to
http://mythipaddress/PocketPC and copy your files to you Pocket PC.
I've done several recordings now and for a 2 hour movie, the resulting file is about 500MB. The quality is outstanding. The video is very clear and the audio is rich.
Good luck!
--Brian
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