[mythtv] PVR 250 & Linux vs Windows PVRs

[Scott Beck]

Will Dormann wrote:

>At 11:48 AM 11/12/2003 -0800, you wrote:
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>>Cedar McKay wrote:
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>>>>I've personally had no luck with transcoding the mpeg output by the 
>>>>pvr250 so archiving may prove difficult.
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>>>Cedar's guide to archiving shows created by the pvr250:
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>>>1)Find relevant .nuv file in your recordings directory.
>>>2)Rename .nuv to .mpg
>>>3)There is no step 3
>>>
>>>This file is a standard mpg that can be burned to dvd or cd, played in 
>>>media player, or manipulated using any of the standard 
>>>windows/mac/linux tools that can hande .mpg (which is most of them).
>>>
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>>There is nothing _standard_ about the mpeg the pvr250 creates. Many 
>>things I tried to use to transcode them saw the mpeg as broken. The 
>>things that would actually transcode it would cut the wrong sections for 
>>commercials and the sound would end up out of sync.
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>I've had no problems here.   Granted I only use windows tools
>(VirtualDub-MPEG2, Vegas, AVISynth, DVD-Lab), but none of my programs have
>trouble opening up the files.
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dunno, I don't have windows. I tried:
    transcode
    mencoder
    myth's transcode (which is just ffmpeg iirc)

>-WD
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