[mythtv-users] Re: Playing MythTV files in Windows

[Rob Rogers]

* Steve <s019 at krans.org> [gmane.comp.tv.mythtv.user]:
> I wrote a script similar to contrib/mythname.pl to create friendly links to
> the nuv files, but I've never needed to convert the nuv files in order to
> play them with Zoom Player and an MPEG-2 codec.

Which works _only_ because you have the PVR-250 which uses MPEG-2. If
you're using any other card, Myth is doing the encoding, and this won't
work. That's what mythencode.pl or similar scripts are for.