Turning programs into audio podcasts

[Chester_Lampwick]

I'd like to be able to convert some of the late night talk shows into audio only podcasts for the car.

Does anybody have any experience with an automated way to do this? I don't really need to create an .rss or .xml page. Just auto transfer, and convert to .mp3.

Is this something the TiVoToGo software will do?

[Yoav]

I'd like to be able to convert some of the late night talk shows into audio only podcasts for the car.

Does anybody have any experience with an automated way to do this? I don't really need to create an .rss or .xml page. Just auto transfer, and convert to .mp3.

Is this something the TiVoToGo software will do?

Do you really mean 'podcast' or do you mean you want an mp3 of your video?

If the latter, it's really easy to do. I put that as a format in iTiVo (audio-only), and if kmttg doesn't have that as a default format, it's probably easy to add.. although I'll let moyekj answer that part.

(if you're adventurous, mencoder will give you an mp3 of your video with these flags:

-ovc frameno -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=2:q=5:br=192 -of rawaudio

and for ffmpeg (which is what kmttg uses by default) it is:

-vn -acodec mp3

[Chester_Lampwick]

Do you really mean 'podcast' or do you mean you want an mp3 of your video?



Yes and yes. I mean really, a podcast is usually an mp3 file referenced by a .rss page, no?

So, here's what I'm thinking. While I'm sleeping, my TiVo records "The Colbert" report. Sometime after recording, TiVo Desktop (or Galleon?) transfers the show to a PC I always have running. Then that PC converts the episode to .mp3. Then sometime before I wake, either my iPod touch or Palm T|X wirelessly syncs the file while sitting inside my car which would be in my driveway. Then I can listen to the show on my commute to work.

[msmart]

You can use DirMon2 (http://www.dragonglobal.biz/dirmon.html) to automatically start a conversion program after the file appears in a particular directory.