[mythtv-users] What Windows codec do I need to play avi's from mythencode?

Scott Alfter mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org
Tue Jan 3 23:11:01 UTC 2006


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Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
> 2006/1/3, Kirk Grell <kirkgrell at yahoo.com <mailto:kirkgrell at yahoo.com>>:
>     I've converted some nuv files to avi's using
>     mythencode, but I can't seem to play them on my
>     Windows machine.
> 
> You didn't say what type of nuv files you have, software encoded
> (mpeg4/rtjpeg) or mpeg2 (dvb/pvr card)
> If it's mpeg2 try videolan client ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ )

He said he'd converted them to AVI.  Then again, he didn't say which codec he
used for the conversion.  If you have nuvexport (or whatever is doing the
conversion) use msmpeg4v2 for the video and MP3 for the audio, the resulting
file should play on any reasonably modern Windows system with no additional
codecs needed.  There was another MPEG-4 option I was using for a short time,
but I had to hex-edit the video FOURCC in those files to make them playable.

Generally speaking, ffdshow is a nice thing to have.  It'll handle most (all?)
of the video formats that a MythTV box will produce.

DSMyth is also nice to have.  I don't stream to Windows much, but the shell
extension that lets you bring up titles & episode names in the "details" view
(and that adds tooltips with the same type of info to each file) is nice to
have when you're looking at a Samba-exported video directory.

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