[mythtv-users] How to raise priority of ticket 13459?

[John Pilkington]

On 11/11/2019 05:25, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> On 11/11/19 13:58, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:43:08 +1100, you wrote:
>>
>>> This ticket
>>>     https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13459
>>> is open for 5 months. The last entry (from me) asks
>>>      Please give this ticket a higher priority
>>> but I could not see any improvement. Milestone says "needs_triage"...
>>>
>>> There is a large number of recordings that I cannot play, and it 
>>> seems others
>>> also experience this.
>>>
>>> How do I make this ticket more visible to developers?
>>> What extra information will help?
>>> Does anyone know a workaround?
>>
>> A good workaround seems to be converting the NUV files to MPEG2
>> container format, but leaving the name with the .nuv extension.  This
>> made a playable file for me:
>>
>> mythffmpeg -i 13459.nuv -codec copy 13459.mpg
>> mv -v 13459.nuv 13459-original.nuv
>> mv -v 13459.mpg 13459.nuv
> 
> The file size will probably change (slightly) and the database entry may
> need adjusting, in which case a new file name can trivially be done too.
> 
> Also (having tried this now) one needs to rebuild the seek table.
> 
>> The MPEG2 file contains exact copies of the streams in the .nuv file -
>> no transcoding is done.  But when played from the MPEG2 container,
>> mythfrontend plays them properly.  Leaving the file name as .nuv means
>> that you do not need to adjust the database entries for the
>> recordings.
>  >
>>  Mythfrontend, like most media players, ignores the file
>> extensions and reads the format data at the front of the file to work
>> out how to play it, so finding an MPEG2 container format in a .nuv
>> file is no problem at all.
>>
>> If you have NUV files with other steams in them (such as subtitles),
>> it would pay to check that the conversion process still works properly
>> with those streams present.
> 

Stephen's suggestion to transcode seems appropriate, but I wonder if 
it's necessary to jump through all the hoops that he suggests.  I just 
googled 'mythtv wiki transcode stub' to find Raymond Wagner's script 
from 1912 and others that use it.  But I never tried it myself.

Or perhaps Frontend settings > Media settings > Videos settings
might allow another player to be used?  I doubt that all the usual 
frontend goodies would be available, though.

John P