drutherford,
Please post the log file, so we can see what's happening.

Here is the log file as requested. I was able to get this working, and it was either one of two things. I had been creating the User Jobs through the mythweb interface prior to my posting (and the following was the log file generated). However, when I exited the frontend, started the myth-setup GUI with Alt-s to double-check that Mythweb was actually updating the user job scripts (they were fine), the experimentalist in me tried this....I retyped the user job code (/usr/local/bin/myth2ipod -cut %DIR% %FILE%), pressed the "Finish" button, and exited the GUI. I restarted the backend with alt-3 and then retried the Encode for iPod job and it worked.

So either a backend restart did the trick or mythweb is not a good way to add stuff to the user jobs and this step needs to be always done through the myth-setup GUI.

In either case, I am good to go (now I should go out and get an iPod) but for those interested I have attached the log file I referred to in my previous post.

Thanks for your interest and I hope this helps someone else.

drutherford

2007-04-12 14:18:36.631 JobQueue: Started "Encode for iPod" for "Malcolm in the Middle" recorded from channel 1015 at Thu Apr 12 13:30:00 2007
2007-04-12 14:18:36.641 jobqueue: Job "Encode for iPod" Started: Started "Encode for iPod" for "Malcolm in the Middle" recorded from channel 1015 at Thu Apr 12 13:30:00 2007
Starting nuvexport...
Generating cutlist
/usr/bin/mythcommflag --chanid 1015 --starttime 20070412133000 --gencutlist
2007-04-12 14:18:37.511 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-04-12 14:18:37.621 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-04-12 14:18:37.651 New DB connection, total: 2
/usr/local/bin/nuvexport --chanid=1015 --start=20070412133000 --mode=iPod --nice=19 --cutlist --nodenoise --nodeinterlace --nomultipass --filename=1015_20070412133000.temp --path=/myth/ipodfeed/
Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/local/share/nuvexport/nuv_export/shared_utils.pm line 61
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/nuvexport line 36.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/nuvexport line 36.

Cleaning up temp files.
Nuvexport encoding seems to have failed
/usr/local/bin/MP4Box -add /myth/ipodfeed/1015_20070412133000.temp.mp4 /myth/ipodfeed/1015_20070412133000.ipod.mp4
Error: Feature Not SupportedUnknown input file type
Error importing /myth/ipodfeed/1015_20070412133000.temp.mp4: Feature Not Supported
MP4Box cleanup seems to have failed
Nuvexport completed, starting xml generation...
"Malcolm_in_the_Middle-High_School_Play-20070412" has been added to the feed.
XML file created for "Malcolm_in_the_Middle-High_School_Play-20070412" : Yipeee
Cleaning up temporary files
rm -f /myth/ipodfeed/1015_20070412133000.temp.mp4
Generating cutlist
/usr/bin/mythcommflag --chanid 1015 --starttime 20070412133000 --clearcutlist
2007-04-12 14:18:38.695 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-04-12 14:18:38.798 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-04-12 14:18:38.827 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-04-12 14:18:38.840 Cutlist set to:
Malcolm in the Middle is ready for your ipod
2007-04-12 14:18:38.864 JobQueue: Finished "Encode for iPod" for "Malcolm in the Middle" recorded from channel 1015 at Thu Apr 12 13:30:00 2007.
2007-04-12 14:18:38.875 jobqueue: Job "Encode for iPod" Finished: Finished "Encode for iPod" for "Malcolm in the Middle" recorded from channel 1015 at Thu Apr 12 13:30:00 2007.

Thanks for the tip, had the same issue, just restarting the backend through alt-3 did the trick for me.

This is working for me in the new version of myth, all I had to do was edit the host ip in the script. What I haven't been able to figure out is how to set the bit rate.

I have found that I should edit the MP4.pm file rather than the iPod.pm file in /usr/local/share/nuvexport/export/ffmpeg

I can change the size to 480, but I can't seem to up the video bit rate. I have 500000 in the default, but don't seem to get more than the standard 200k....?