[mythtv-users] converting NUV to AVI or something I can use on my Mac

Leo Laksmana beol at laksmana.net
Tue Jul 22 15:03:58 EDT 2003


i'm not sure I understand your last comment, by I have been able to use
mythencode to re-encode (if that's the right term) mythtv recording into
divx avi files and play it on windows media player.


-Leo

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:35:19PM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > MPEG4 is just a standard of how to compress file, how they implement it
> > depends on who implements it. For example, mythtv mpeg4 codec is
> > implemented by nuppel.
> 
> unfortunately, whether correct or not, MPEG4 currently refers to any
> number of different encoding codecs.  the divx people like to think they
> they're mpeg4, and Apple announced over a year ago that Sorenson was to
> be the default.  I'm sure that microsoft and others have their own
> ideas.  the *official* MPEG4 standard is still being decided (they
> recently figured out what the licensing structure will be, but they're
> still arguing about the codec itself).
> 
> It's been asked a few times "which" MPEG4 is used by myth, but I've
> never heard a response.
> 
> nuppel is a container format (like ogg or avi), and even if you can get
> the stream into something a mac (or windows machine) can read - avi -
> with an mplayer stream copy, that doesn't mean that the end machine can
> read it (the standard divx codec will NOT work, or those of us who
> wanted would be able to watch those in windows, which we cannot).
> 
> -Chris
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