[mythtv-users] Nuppel nuisance

[Saul A. Peebsen]

Thanks to everybody for replying. :)

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:54:35 -0500
Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:

> On 2/26/2012 20:33, Saul A. Peebsen wrote:
> > I have a bunch of nuv files recorded from a framegrabber card I'd
> > like to convert to something more generic. However, the only app
> > that can play them seems to be MythTV, everything else fails. I've
> > tried with MPlayer/MEncoder, ffmpeg and Avidemux.
> > I'm running Gentoo and that makes me thing I lack something ... but
> > what?
> > For instance, MPlayer opens the file and starts playing, I can hear
> > the audio but the picture is just the first frame, still picture.
> > Avidemux gives the "best" results actually playing it for a while
> > before crashing.
> >
> > Any recommendations how to recode them?
> 
> Best option, get a hardware encoder card so you start out with
> something more generic.

These files are from 0.21 and 0.22 era. This V4L2 card stopped working
in 0.23 and is even not recognized in 0.24.
 
> Second best option, rewrite the encoder routines in MythTV to use a
> more sensible format.  This has actually been done at least once, but
> it never got cleaned up and committed.

See above.
 
> What you're probably looking for, use mythtranscode's fifo options to 
> extract the audio and video bitstreams.  Nuvexport will likely do
> what you're looking for already, however if you don't like nuvexport,
> you can at least read through it as a guide of how to handle the fifo
> mechanism. 

Will look into this.

-- 
Cheers, Saul