[mythtv] Myth .nuv MPEG4 format portability [Possible Breakthrough]

[Shawn Edwards]

What was the magic command line for mencoder?  If it was in a previous 
post, sorry, but there have been WAY to many possible correct command 
lines reported, and I'm still not having any luck here.  Either I get 
video or audio but never both.  Not being able to seek would be an 
improvement!

-Shawn

Greg.Froese at federated.ca wrote:

>I have successfully copied both the video and audio using mencoder, and I 
>can view the resulting video in windows, however, I cannot seek in the 
>video.  If I try to seek, the seek bar moves appropriately and so does the 
>sound, but the picture freezes from the last displayed image and stays 
>that way until I reload the file.
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>are others able to seek on these videos in windows?
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>I've tried divfix and virtual dub to recreate the index with no success.
>gf
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>Matt Zimmerman <mdz at debian.org>
>Sent by: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
>03/04/2003 01:29 PM
>Please respond to Development of mythtv
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>        To:     mythtv-dev at snowman.net
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>        Subject:        Re: [mythtv] Myth .nuv MPEG4 format portability [Possible Breakthrough]
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>On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:43:49AM -0600, Rob Snow wrote:
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>>I was actually trying to create a small .avi file for distribution to
>>others who follow the lists to get a survey of who could/couldn't play 
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>>file to see if I could find any commonality.  Since it was just a 
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>>test, I was trying to make it really small.  (video bitrate of 100 
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>>to lavc) and noticed that the audio was as large or larger than the 
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>>track...simple fix, I downsampled it by removing the -oac copy option 
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>>replacing it with a -oac mp3lame.  When I encoded this it triggered a
>>different set of "Skipping frame" messages that I had seen before.  This
>>turned on some type of light in my head so I tried to play it under
>>Windows...shazzam, it worked...something is definately different. 
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>As I have said here many times, it does not work correctly to resample the
>video and not the audio (or vice versa).  If you re-encode one, you must
>re-encode the other.
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>Of course, copying both should work fine (and does for some folks here). I
>suspect it's a software/configuration problem on the Windows side that
>prevents it from working.
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