[mythtv-users] transcoding to playback on windows
Joseph A. Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Sep 24 00:19:41 EDT 2003
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 21:16, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> I want to take some of my videos and convert them to a format that I can
> watch on a windows machine.
>
> I been reading the archives, and just want to confirm I've got this
right....
>
> Okay, I set a transcode profile, I then while watching a video, hit x to
> start to a transcode, once that's done, using mencoder from mplayer 1.01pre,
> I can transcode the video to a divx or avi format viewable on windows.
>
> The former way was to patch mplayer with matt zimmerman's patch, use
> mythmkmovie against the nuv file and then run mencoder against that.
>
> Have I got this right, or have I missed anything?
No. Well, it depends on which version of Myth and MPlayer/mencoder you're
using, but with current Myth CVS you cannot use mencoder to transcode Myth
.nuv files, as the Myth .nuv format has changed and there is no
mplayer/mencoder patch for it.
Currently (again, this is with CVS Myth) the only way I know of to transcode
to a Windows-playable format is nuvexport. This is a perl script that uses
ffmpeg and mjpegtools together with mythtranscode's new ability to output raw
audio & video streams. It supports transcoding to DivX (.avi), WMV, SVCD
(MPEG-2) and VCD (MPEG-1). It will also process any cutlists you've set up,
so you can cut the commercials out, then transcode to an archival
Windows-playable format.
>
> So, what happens with a video that is not in the database.... How do I
> transcode that one? This is an orphan video from a previous verision of
> mythtv .9 or .10 IIRC.
Check out myth.rebuilddatabase.pl in the contrib directory of the mythtv
source.
-JAC
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