[mythtv-users] Important recoding damaged - anything I can do?
Damian
myth at surr.co.uk
Thu Jun 28 06:19:00 UTC 2012
Hello all,
My kids were on a BBC1 TV program about Glastonbury festival a couple of
years ago. The recoding has survived various Myth problems and
re-installs, but I now fear that I've lost it for good.
I have tried and failed to 'export' this file into a more usable format
several times over the years I have had it. Exporting a recording from
MythTV seems to be one of the hardest things to do for some reason, but
I'm not here to complain. Just want to see if there's anything I can do
from here.
I got the impression from a recent thread that creating a cut list and
trascoding a recording with 'lossless' quality would create an MPG file
(as opposed to an nuv). I did that a few days ago. The job seemed to
take a very long time, but I was happy to see that it was no longer in
the job queue the following morning.
Running mythlink.pl showed me that the file was still an nuv file.
Last night, I thought I'd try it again, but found a problem. The
recording is still there from within MythTV, but only partially. If I
play the recording, it just closes after about 15 minutes. I obviously
tried this several times and have also tried playing the file using VLC
from a Windows machine. The file seems to be damaged.
I doubt there's anything that I can do, but would love to hear if any
recovery is possible.
Thanks
Damian
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