[mythtv-users] Automatic mythtranscode

[Chris Petersen]

> I am curious about the history of this.  Was Nupplevideo the best choice
> at the time the system was developed?  I have often wondered why Myth
> uses the nupple player rather than taking something like mplayer and
> adding Myth features to it (Myth OSD, keyboard interface, commercial skip
> and editing modes.   Aside from the fact that mplayer seems a very actively
> developed project with support for huge numbers of different video formats
> (including nuv and ty) it would also mean a single player for DVDs, videos
> and TV recordings with a single UI.

I think that there is a fair amount of this in the dev list archives.. 
But basically, as I understand it, NUV is the only container format that 
has per-frame sync adjustments, which Isaac felt/feels is necessary for 
some of the things that mythtv does with its software-encoded recordings.

-Chris