OK, so ive been running MythTV for 2 years now. My Myth server has been enhanced, updated and rebuilt a couple of times during that period. But more on that later.
So last week I finally joined the iPod age with the purchase of a nice big 160GB iPod Classic…. and its my first ever iPod. (yeah, welcome to this century..). So I figured there must be a way to get my MythTV recordings onto the iPod. Perhaps using the podcast functionality was the answer. Well low and behold the solution already existed in the form of myth2ipod. However in the ever changing world of linux and mythTV the script wouldn’t work on my setup.
I use Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server to run my MythTV server and it didn’t bring down a version ffmpeg that worked with nuvexport. So, i compiled a version of ffmpeg from source to work nuvexport, still no joy. So a bit of manually reworkingt he myth2ipod script and creating my ffmpeg shell script its all now working. Easy huh!!
But the concept is great and worth the hacking to make it work. From mythweb when I set a program to record I can set the “covert for iPod” flag, so for that particular program it will make an iPod ready version…it will then publish it on my in house RSS feed. then whenever I sync my iPod with iTunes im subscribed to my podcast RSS feed and it automatically downloads the unwatched TV episode to my iPod so I can view it on my lengthy commute.
