[mythtv-users] MPEG recordings

[Maarten]

On Monday 18 October 2004 05:45, Alan Murrell wrote:
> Hi There,
>

>   2. I am using a PVR-250 to do my recordings.  Whle a recording is
> happening, I notice almost no load or CPU usage on the recording server,
> which seems to indicate that the PVR-250 is indeed doing the recording (and
> therefore recording in MPEG-2 format), however, they are recorded with a
> '.nuv' extension, and when they are finished, I cannot play them in a
> "standard" media player, such as Windows Media Player, even if I rename the
> extension to '.mpg'.  I am guessing that this is what is happening:

Why don't you -instead of guessing things- just find out what the actual file 
format is ?  Playing it with mplayer and looking at the startup info would be 
one way, using the command 'file' would be another.  And there's bound to be 
tons of windows tools that can tell you as well.

Maarten