Mac Geekery

I am missing something, I can’t seem to find the mac os x package
on the galleon website, only the zip file.

It’s working well for me. I run Galleon using the Mac OS X bundle, and I successfully set up tivodecode, and VLC to run from launchd and do their conversions. It took me a solid 2 hours to set up, but I’m kinda rusty at scripting and launchd is brand new to me.

This is a nice setup, Adam. Thanks for the information.

I found it much easier to transcode my MPEG-2 file using ffmpegx . It has a much easier to use GUI interface instead of running terminal scripts for VLC.

I can't seem to get the part that waits for the file to be downloaded to work correctly. It starts converting the file as soon as it begins to download the *.TiVo file. I tried a variety of syntax variations but had no luck. Any ideas? My basic script is below.

SOURCE_DIR=/Volumes/ExternalDisk/tivo
cd "$SOURCE_DIR"
ls | while read FILE
do
    sleep 5
    if ( [ ! -N "$FILE" ] )
    then
        echo Processing $FILE
    else
        echo Skipping $FILE
    fi
done

Has anybody had any audio/video sync issues once the muxed mpeg2 file is converted?

My TiVo files also playback as mono although I believe the other track is actually there.

any help appreciated

Adam,

For some reason, after plugging in my own directories and MAK (and un-commenting the “echo” lines for troubleshooting), all the tivobatch.sh does is very politely tell me that it’s skipping each file in my source dir. Help…?

Thanks,
Sonya

Actually, I did pay for the quicktime MPEG2 decoder, but alas it doesn’t work. VLC is the only option if you want to see the decoded tivo files (or convert using something like iSquint) to something that is much smaller and looks better like H.264.

If you have gotten your MPEG2 for quicktime to work, and have any ideas why mine only plays sound, shoot me a response. Cheers.

/a

Requires: VLC 0.8.5, tivodecode 0.1.4.

I crop the edges to get rid of some annoying video noise and encode to H264 512x384 at 384kbps which gives very small file sizes with good quality. I'm not sure this format works on a video iPod, though, as I'm not lucky enough to have one of those yet

tivobatch.sh

#!/bin/bash

SOURCE_DIR=/Volumes/Disk/TiVoRecordings/tivo
OUTPUT_DIR1=/Volumes/Disk/TiVoRecordings/mpeg2
OUTPUT_DIR2=/Volumes/Disk/TiVoRecordings/mpeg4
TO_DEL_DIR=/Volumes/Disk/TiVoRecordings/toDelete

cd "$SOURCE_DIR"
ls | egrep ".TiVo$" | while read FILE
do
    if ( [ ! -N "$FILE" ] )
    then
        echo Processing $FILE # put debug info in console.log
        if [ ! -e "$OUTPUT_DIR1/$FILE.m2v" ]
        then
            # put TiVo MAK in ~/.tivodecode_mak
            nice -n 15 /usr/local/bin/tivodecode -o "$OUTPUT_DIR1/$FILE.m2v" "$FILE"
        fi
        mv "$FILE" "$TO_DEL_DIR/"
        /usr/local/bin/tivotranscode.sh "$OUTPUT_DIR1/$FILE.m2v" "$OUTPUT_DIR2/$FILE.mp4"
        mv "$OUTPUT_DIR1/$FILE.m2v" "$TO_DEL_DIR/"
        #rm "$OUTPUT_DIR1/$FILE.m2v"
    else
        echo Skipping $FILE
    fi

    file "$FILE" > /dev/null
    sleep 61
done
if [ -e .DS_Store ]  # so this script doesn't run like crazy if you click around in SOURCE_DIR
then
    echo Deleting .DS_Store from $SOURCE_DIR
    rm -f .DS_Store
fi

tivotranscode.sh

#!/bin/bash
# example usage: tivotranscode.sh in.m2v out.mp4
nice -n 15 \
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/clivlc \
-I dummy -v "$1" \
:sout="#transcode{threads=2,\
croptop=9,cropbottom=9,cropleft=12,cropright=12,\
vcodec=h264,vb=384,scale=1,deinterlace,width=512,height=384,\
acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2,audio-sync}\
:standard{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=$2}" vlc:quit \
#--stop-time 2 # uncomment for testing

Hey There-

I got the download part working with no problem. I’ve installed the tools, but when I go to $ make the tivo encode, it errors?

Am I missing something?

UPDATE

Never mind, I clearly forgot to install the tools correctly.. got it working.

Gotta tell you this is very cool. I combined it with rsyncx to get shows from my gf’s tivo cuz i got no cable/tivo since i am a bum/mooch

i wonder, though is there a way to add itunes metadata to get the shows to show up in the tv menu of the ipod video, rather than the movie menu

the only way i have been able to do it so far is manually, which i think defeats the point, any insights or ideas would be greatly appreciated

I wanted to thank everyone for posting. Using this site and http://jeremysimmons.com/zen_vision/, I have successfully got my setup to work the way I want. I am running Ubuntu for my OS, my wife is using XP. My script decodes the TiVo file, changes it into a format that my wifes Zen can use and copies the file to a Infrant RAID storage device. An email is sent to me describing what was done, and an email is sent to my wife letting her know that a show is on the Infrant waiting for her to upload to her Zen. Finally the script removes files over a week old to conserve hard drive space. The script is run from cron nightly.

I had a lot of problems dealing with spaces in the file names until I found a script to replace them with underscores:

http://www.pigstye.net/articles/2006/09/18/perl-script-to-remove-spaces-from-file-dir-names

Thanks again for all the help!

#!/bin/bash

TIVODECODE=/usr/local/bin/tivodecode
SOURCE_DIR=~/Media/TiVo
OUTPUT_DIR1=~/Media/Decoded
OUTPUT_DIR2=~/Media/Zen
TO_DEL_DIR=~/Media/2Delete

/usr/bin/nospace $SOURCE_DIR

1. Lets get started with the Decodeing

echo “ Starting Stats” > /tmp/tivohead.tmp
echo “************************************************************” >> /tmp/tivohead.tmp
cd “$SOURCE_DIR”
echo “The Tivo Directory contains `ls | wc -l` files totalling `du -h`” >> /tmp/tivohead.tmp
cd “$OUTPUT_DIR1”
echo “The Decoded Directory contains `ls | wc -l` files totalling `du -h`” >> /tmp/tivohead.tmp
cd “$OUTPUT_DIR2”
echo “The Zen Directory contains `ls | wc -l` files totalling `du -h`” >> /tmp/tivohead.tmp
echo “************************************************************” >> /tmp/tivohead.tmp
echo “” > /tmp/tivostat.tmp

cd “$SOURCE_DIR”
ls | egrep “.TiVo$” | while read FILE
do if ( [ ! -N “$FILE” ] ) then if [ ! -e “$OUTPUT_DIR1/$FILE.mpg” ] then echo Decoding $FILE >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp echo Starting Decode `date +%H:%M:%S` >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp # put TiVo MAK in ~/.tivodecode_mak nice -n 5 $TIVODECODE -o “$OUTPUT_DIR1/$FILE.mpg” “$FILE” echo Finished Decode `date +%H:%M:%S` >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp #echo File size is `ls -lh $OUTPUT_DIR1/”$FILE” | awk ‘{ print $5 }’` >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp echo “” >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp if [ ! -e “$OUTPUT_DIR2/$FILE.avi” ] then echo Translating $FILE >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp echo Starting Zen 4:3 Translation `date +%H:%M:%S` >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp nice -n 5 mencoder $OUTPUT_DIR1/$FILE.mpg -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=0:cbr:br=128 -af volume=20 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=500 -vf pp=fd,softskip,format=yv12,scale=340:272 -ofps 30000/1001 -ffourcc XVID -of avi -noodml -o $OUTPUT_DIR2/$FILE.avi echo Finished Zen 4:3 Translation `date +%H:%M:%S` >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp #

1. echo Starting Zen 16:9 Translation `date +%H:%M:%S` >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp
2. nice -n 5 mencoder $OUTPUT_DIR1/$FILE.mpg lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts \
3. vbr=0:cbr:br=128 -lavcopts -af volume=30 vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=750 -vf \
4. pp=fd,softskip,format=yv12,scale=340:272 -ofps 30000/1001 -ffourcc \
5. XVID -of avi -noodml -o $OUTPUT_DIR2/$FILE.avi
6. echo Finished Zen 16:9 Translation `date +%H:%M:%S` >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp

# echo “” >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp fi fi mv “$FILE” “$TO_DEL_DIR/” mv $OUTPUT_DIR1/”$FILE.mpg” “$TO_DEL_DIR/” cd $OUTPUT_DIR2/ /usr/bin/smbclient //192.168.X.X/Zen PASSWORD -c “prompt off; mput *.avi” mv $OUTPUT_DIR2/”$FILE.avi” “$TO_DEL_DIR/” else echo Skipping $FILE >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp echo “” >> /tmp/tivostat.tmp fi

file “$FILE” > /dev/null sleep 61

done

echo “” > /tmp/tivotail.tmp
echo “ Summary” >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp
echo “************************************************************” >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp
cd “$SOURCE_DIR”
echo “The Tivo Directory now contains `ls | wc -l` files totalling `du -h`” >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp
cd “$OUTPUT_DIR1”
echo “The Decoded Directory now contains `ls | wc -l` files totalling `du -h`” >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp
cd “$OUTPUT_DIR2”
echo “The Zen Directory now contains `ls | wc -l` files totalling `du -h`” >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp
cd “$TO_DEL_DIR”
echo “The ToBeDeleted Directory now contains `ls | wc -l` files totalling `du -h`” >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp
echo “” >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp
echo “ Hard Drive Space” >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp
echo “************************************************************” >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp
df -h | head -n 2 >> /tmp/tivotail.tmp

cat /tmp/tivohead.tmp > /tmp/tivomail.tmp
cat /tmp/tivostat.tmp >> /tmp/tivomail.tmp
cat /tmp/tivotail.tmp >> /tmp/tivomail.tmp

TiVoMAIL=`cat /tmp/tivostat.tmp | wc -l`
NUM=2
if [ $NUM -lt $TiVoMAIL ]
then cat /tmp/tivomail.tmp | /usr/bin/mailx s “TiVo Decode for `date +%k%Mhrs%Y%m%d`” bob@dev.null
fi

1. Create some text for email to wife

echo “” > /tmp/zentail.tmp
echo “ These are the Shows available for you to transfer to your Zen” >> /tmp/zentail.tmp
echo “****************************************************************” >> /tmp/zentail.tmp
/usr/bin/smbclient //192.168.X.X/Zen PASSWORD -c ls | egrep “*.avi *” >> /tmp/zentail.tmp
echo “” >> /tmp/zentail.tmp
echo “” >> /tmp/zentail.tmp

RSYNCFILE2=`cat /tmp/zentail.tmp | wc -l`
NUM=5

if [ $NUM -lt $RSYNCFILE2 ]
then cat /tmp/zentail.tmp | /usr/bin/mailx s “rsync [Zen Files]: `date +%k%Mhrs%Y%m%d`” mrsbob@dev.null
fi

1. Delete files over 7 days old in Delete Dir

for i in `find $TO_DEL_DIR -maxdepth 1 -mtime +7 -print`; do rm -rf $i; done

exit 0