[mythtv-users] streaming to windows (directly through myth)

[Ian Forde]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 22:17 +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > > I think it can if you've installed the dsmyth filters.
> >
> > no it can't
> 
> Thanks for the detailed, analytical reply - you obviously thought long
> and hard over it. Great effort.
> 
> Hate to say you're wrong, but I just played one on my Windows XP PC. I
> have a drive mapped to a samba share on my MythTV box and I opened up
> VLC on the Windows XP PC, dropped a MythTV recording onto it and it
> played no problem. This file was a DVB-T MPEG2 recording transcoded to
> MPEG4 by MythTV called 1003_20060202234500_20060203001500.nuv.

That would not be a Nuppel file.  That would be an MPEG4 file that was
transcoded from a MPEG2 file.  You'd see a Nuppel file file if you were
using a WinTV Go 401 card (basically, a card without a hardware encoder)
recording an analog stream.

> So - yes it can.

Your test case wasn't valid, unfortunately...

	-I