[mythtv] Why nuppelvideo mpeg4?
J. Donavan Stanley
jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Mon Aug 8 17:08:46 EDT 2005
Reza Naima wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:40:57PM +0200, Torbjörn Jansson sent me this...
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>>mplayers problem and not mythtvs.
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>There are two ways of looking at this problem. You could modify mplayer
>to work better, or modify mythtv to produce more compatible output. As
>it seems that you have to install specially patched versions of various
>programs on almost all platforms to play the .nuv files, it would seem
>reasonable to want to try to produce more standard output files. But
>I've never dealt with the inner workings of video file formats so I'm
>not sure how it all works.
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Why the hell should Myth care is mplayer can play it's files or not?
>Why is it that mythtv works fine with mepg2 output of pvr's? Why can't
>it work just as well with the standard mpeg4 file?
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Myth can read and playback AVIs just fine. It just doesn't create
them. (because the container sucks ass)
> How hard would it be (and are there any reasons no to) modify the code
>such that it will generate more friendly mpeg4 files?
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There are lots of reasons why not to change. The least of which is "It
ain't broke".
>My personal goals are to :
> - remove the DB dependance for generated files
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There isn't a DB dependence for generated files. You can playback
Myth's recordings just fine without the seek table (both in Myth and
other players). You just can't seek/jump around them quickly without
that index. You could probably tack the seek table on to the end of the
file in some sort of id3 tag if you *really* wanted that data out of the
table..
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