[mythtv] Myth .nuv MPEG4 format portability [PossibleBreakthrough]

[tanlain at cox-internet.com]

I also read on the forums where there is a patch out that adds mythtv
support to avidemux.
Dont have the link handy offhand and havent tried it myself, but will let
you know the results after I do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Edwards" <sedwards at theedwards.org>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Myth .nuv MPEG4 format portability
[PossibleBreakthrough]


> 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.
> >
> >are others able to seek on these videos in windows?
> >
> >I've tried divfix and virtual dub to recreate the index with no success.
> >gf
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >        To:     mythtv-dev at snowman.net
> >        cc:
> >        Subject:        Re: [mythtv] Myth .nuv MPEG4 format portability
[Possible Breakthrough]
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:43:49AM -0600, Rob Snow wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >>
> >the
> >
> >
> >>file to see if I could find any commonality.  Since it was just a
> >>
> >>
> >go/no-go
> >
> >
> >>test, I was trying to make it really small.  (video bitrate of 100
> >>
> >>
> >passed
> >
> >
> >>to lavc) and noticed that the audio was as large or larger than the
> >>
> >>
> >video
> >
> >
> >>track...simple fix, I downsampled it by removing the -oac copy option
> >>
> >>
> >and
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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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