So, after reading through the various video iPod threads, and thinking about some of the wishing that had gone on in the past about podcasts, what if some effort was put into a "MythPodder" module? This module could (bear with me here, I'm blue-skying):
1) Download podcasts from RSS feeds 1a) OK, it'd be nice to take some of the podcast directories (OPML anyone?) and display them for subscription as well as manually add podcasts 1b) And, we'd want to set up a download schedule, retention limit, etc (ala iPodder ?) 2) Organize said podcasts into a "Manage Recordings" type screen where you have a list of podcasts you've subscribed to and a sub-list of "episodes" of the podcast 3) Allow you to play these podcasts ala "Manage Recordings" but also ... 4) Allow you to select recordings/videos to be "published" via a (or several) RSS feeds from MythWeb 4a) After selecting the recording/video, it gets queued in the transcode daemon's list, with appropriate settings to transcode it to the video iPod format (which as far as I can tell, is limited to 480x480 mpeg-4 , 30 fps, using the available software ... I don't think we can encode to H.264 with the available libraries such as ffmpeg) 4b) After the transcode daemon is finished with it, through some clever php scripting in the MythWeb interface it'd appear as an RSS feed 5) Allow you to select music and podcasts to be presented as an RSS feed too... In this way you could subscribe your iPods (or PDAs, desktops, laptops, etc) to the MythWeb RSS feed, and view shows, recordings, music, and podcasts. Wouldn't that be great? Comments/thoughts? Anthony. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
