[mythtv-users] make a copy of .nuv as .mpg

[kedlm at charter.net]

If you really want to do this copy then you can't use a wildcard as the destintation.  You will have to loop over the files or do a clever sed line I think.

I would suggest that you simply make the .nuv extention open in media player or whatever instead; by creating a new mime entry under windows.  That way you don't need a rename or copy.  Hopefully media player can handle the extention by sniffing the actual data (once the file is at least associated with media player).

> 
> From: Matt Hannan <matthew.j.hannan at verizon.net>
> Date: 2004/10/16 Sat PM 12:47:48 EDT
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] make a copy of .nuv as .mpg
> 
> OK, I am starting to freak out.
> I have a PVR-350, so I want to copy my recorded shows (.nuv) to .mpg so 
> that I can watch the shows from a Windows client on the network.
> 
> Sounds easy, right? Oh how I wish!
> 
> I guess I am just being greedy, but I do not want to mv or rename the 
> files, I just want to make a new copy of them with the .mpg extension 
> and place them in an already Samba shared directory.
> 
> I tried
> cp /storage/TV/recording/*.nuv /storage/Videos/*.mpg
> and I am getting this error message:
> 
> cp: `/storage/Videos/*.mpg': specified destination directory does not exist
> 
> But /storage/Videos DOES exist!!!
> 
> I know that this has to be a wicked easy thing to do, but I am having a 
> really rough time of it...and I am even embarrassed to be asking the 
> question, as I have 3+ years experience with Linux.
> Is it the wildcard * that is screwing me up here?
> 
> The ultimate goal is to drop the statement into a cron job and have it 
> execute in the early morning hours.
> I will then have the ability to watch/manage the recordings thru MythTV 
> (as .nuv files) or watch/manage them out on the network as .mpg.
> 
> Please help.
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