[mythtv-users] NUV TO WINDOWS PC

[Scott Alfter]

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Raphael Pooser top-posted (grr):
> Scott Alfter wrote:
>> Martin Hartman III wrote:
>>> For all you Windows users out there, all you have to do is download the
>>> .nuv file through a Samba mount on your MythTV box and rename the
>>> extension to .mpg and it will work perfectly.
>>
>> As others have no doubt already pointed out, that only works if your 
>> MythTV recordings are MPEG-2 (which means you're most likely doing
>> hardware encoding). That said, you can transcode your video (whether
>> captured with hardware or software encoding) with mplayer into a smaller
>> AVI that your Windows machines can play. You can even get watchable video
>> at a low-enough bitrate that it's feasible to download the transcoded
>> video from your server at home to a remote location (like when you're out
>> of town).
>>
>> [sample usage of mplayer for transcoding snipped]
>
> So, there is the built in software transcoder in myth, and you can use
> that to transcode to mpeg4.  Once you do that, the files are named still
> with extension .nuv.  Can you open and play those in windows media
> player (or any other player for windows like ati fileplayer for
> example)?

By itself, DirectShow knows nothing about the NuppelVideo container format.
There are some filters available (google for "dsmyth") that include a
NuppelVideo demuxer.  I prefer going the mplayer route for this kind of
transcoding because AVI is more usable under Windows than NuppelVideo (you
can't edit NuppelVideo AFAIK, but there are tons of apps (such as VirtualDub)
to edit AVIs).

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