See the next post for the solution.

I edited the ipod.pm file starting on line 71 for the default bitrate section.

It now reads;


All of my transcoded programs still poor video/ 128 audio? Is there another section I should be editing to change the video bitrate settings?

Given in the myth2ipod file I am not declaring any nuvoption that deal with the bitrate, should the default settings in ipod.pm file be the default?

OK I solved it after reading the FFMpeg documentation ....

It turns out in the iPod.pm file the audio bitrate is in kbps but the video is bps... Putting in 780000 instead of 780 yields the correct file size.

I finally realized that myth2ipod is calling nuvexport and it is loading ffmpeg settings from iPod.pm.... I tracked down the ffmpeg documentation and realized my problem....

The other option is to add nuvoptions in the myth2ipod file for the audio and video bitrates....

I kept getting 50 Mb file size files for a half hour show and that was with a video bitrate of 768 (Should have been 768000)

Reference;
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC8
`-b bitrate'
Set the video bitrate in bit/s (default = 200 kb/s)

http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC10
`-ab bitrate'
Set the audio bitrate in kbit/s (default = 64).

Thank you for posting this; I had exactly the same problem and entering the video bitrate in bps and not kbps did the trick.

Glad to hear it helped.

Unfortunately this trick didn't work for me even after trying to cut and paste your code into my iPod.pm file.

I guess the other option is to add nuvoptions in the myth2ipod file for the audio and video bitrates per your suggestion.

How do I do that? What line do I amend?

You should just change 384 to 384000 or anything else in the ipod.pm file..... That should do it...

The nuvoptions to add as an alternate would be...

sgunther's bitrate trick works.

I just forgot to post my video problem solution.

I downgraded my nuvexport per this post http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... =myth2ipod and now it works like a charm.

I have modified the bit trate in both places,.. but I still get the default rate of 292k... I wonder why.

I had to edit the MP4.pm file rather than the iPhone.pm file. I could change the sizing, and encode to h.264 (looks much better) but I still can't get the bit rate above about 300k. I did enter 500000 in both locations with no change. Ideas?