[mythtv-users] How To Export HD Content Captured With HD-3000

[Michael T. Dean]

Drew Tomlinson wrote:

>I've been searching Google and haven't had much success.  I'm trying to 
>view content that was captured with an HD-3000 card.  It is OTA network 
>content.  Googling suggests that the *.nuv file is a MPEG2 file.  OK, I 
>copied the content over to my Windows XP box and gave it a *.mpg 
>extension.  My Windows box is an AMD Athlon X2 3800+ with 2 GB of RAM so 
>horsepower should not be an issue.
>
>Googling also suggests that Windows Media Player (WMP) may have a 
>problem opening these files but they should play fine with a DVD player 
>such as PowerDVD.  WMP can not open the file.  PowerDVD opens the file, 
>displays a mostly green screen with a few moving pixels in the top left 
>portion of the screen, and then blanks out to all black.  No sound is 
>played and PowerDVD can't be closed without using the "End Task" 
>function in Windows Task Manager.  I also tried the Windows version of 
>mplayer.  mplayer does play the file audio OK but seems to only be able 
>to display about one or two frames per second.
>
>This same file plays without error within MythTV, running on an AMD 
>Athlon 2800+ with 512 MB of RAM.  Any ideas?  I'm using Myth 0.18.2 on 
>Gentoo with kernel 2.6.13-r5.
>  
>
I'm guessing your PowerDVD MPEG-2 CODEC only supports 720x480 (or some 
other size smaller than HDTV-sized) video.

Mike