[mythtv-users] MythStreamTV - NUV File Support?

Patrick Kirchner obecalp at ameritech.net
Sat May 14 02:24:23 UTC 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Phill Edwards
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:40 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythStreamTV - NUV File Support?
> > I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with MythStreamTV 
> > that DOESN'T have a PVR150/250/350 card in it?  I'm using a Bt878
> > Even with the latest VLC snapshot (vlc-snapshot-20050511& ffmpeg 
> > version 0.4.9-pre1), I'm unable to play .nuv files:
> > [00000232] main input debug:
> > `/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1052_20050512010000_20050512013000.nuv'
> > successfully opened
> > [00000253] nuv demuxer debug: unsupported compression 2 for video 
> > (upload samples)
> > The command I'm using to test it is:
> > vlc -vvv
> > /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1052_20050512010000_20050512013000.nuv
> '#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=256,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=32,channe
> > If anyone could offer me some insight or suggestions I'd be most 
> > appreciative :)
>
> I have never tried using it so I'm just guessing here, but 
> maybe it only supports MPEG-2. If you have a look at 
> http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ it says "MythStreamTV is 
> a MythTV plugin that allows live transcoding and streaming of MPEG 1/2
> (PVR-x50/M-179/DVB/ATSC/HD) to Windows Media Player/Mplayer 
> and allows control via MythWeb".
> If you have a BT878 tuner card that would be recording in 
> MPEG-4 or RTJPEG format - not MPEG-2. Perhaps you could try 
> transcoding one of your existing recordings into MPEG-2 and 
> seeing if that works.
> Regards,
> Phill

Ugh :(

Now I understand why I can't do this.  I guess I missed that small, but very
important, detail.

I'm left wondering if I should scrap my BT878 card for a 250 or 350 or wait
for streaming support for the RTJPEG format.

Thanks for the clarification Phill.



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