[mythtv] Why .nuv files
Daniel Kristjansson
danielk at cuymedia.net
Mon May 19 23:36:15 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 18:17 -0500, spam man wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am looking at doing some MythTV development and I was wondering if
> anyone can answer the question "Why does mythtranscode use the .nuv
> container?". Why not something a little more common and also open
> like ogg or mkv?
While not common, MythTV's nuppel video format is open. :)
You can read about the reasoning for nuv being chosen initially at
mythtv.org. A number of years ago it was the best low CPU format
available. Also it allows the seek map to be stored in the file
unlike many other containers like MPEG-PS or MPEG-TS.
If you would like to add support for more output formats that is
a welcome addition. I would especially like plain MPEG-TS so that
subtitles could be easily included in the output.
-- Daniel
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