<div>Guys, thanks for such a prompt reply!</div>
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<div>But I think you miss the point.</div>
<div>Those of you who read the last issue of Linux journal, the "Advanced MythTV Video Processing" article must note, I citate:</div>
<div>"Although digital TV recordings are an MPEG-2 video stream, the NuppelVideo container format used by MythTV is specific to MythTV and is not supported by most video player software. To watch the videos with anything other than a MythTV front end, you must convert them to a format with a wider selection of players."
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<div>I need to use mythtranscode tool to convert the MythTV recordings into more widely supported formats, means it's not MPEG-2 format.</div>
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<div>Additionally, as I understood, if you take a file in Myth native format with resolution 704x480 which size is 1,756MB after decoding it to DVD (i.e. MPEG-2) format, the file will shrink to 899MB.</div>
<div>Now is the one million dollar question, why the native file (original) is so large?</div>
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<div>Another example, what if I have PVR which has DivX encoding capabilities, whould MythTV save it in DivX (as I expect it to be), or in its native format?<br> </div>
<div>Thank you.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Brad DerManouelian wrote:<br><br>> On Nov 27, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Felix Rubinstein wrote:<br>><br>>> On 11/27/05, * Donavan Stanley* <
<a href="mailto:geckofiend@gmail.com">geckofiend@gmail.com</a><br>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:geckofiend@gmail.com">geckofiend@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>> On 11/27/05, *Felix Rubinstein* <
<a href="mailto:felixru@gmail.com">felixru@gmail.com</a><br>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:felixru@gmail.com">felixru@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Why does it save video in this format and not in MPEG-2 video
<br>>> stream?<br>>><br>>><br>>> If you're using a hardware encoder cars it IS mpeg2 not a<br>>> nupplevideo.<br>>><br>>> Why Myth format is so large and why can't it be saved in raw
<br>>> MPEG-2 video<br>>> stream for later playback?<br>>><br>>><br>>> You should REALLY search the mailing lists... This topic has<br>>> been covered to death.
<br>>><br>>> Let's make it clearer, for instance, I use WinTV-PVR-150, it has<br>>> MPEG-2 encoder, right? So why files stored on hard disk are still in<br>>> NuppelVideo format?<br>><br>>They're not. They have a .nuv extension, but are in mpeg-2 format. Try
<br>>working with them as mpeg-2 files and you won't have a problem.<br>><br>If you want proof, try file:<br><br>$ file 1018_20050115160000_20050115170000.nuv<br>1018_20050115160000_20050115170000.nuv: MPEG system stream data
<br><br>This isn't Windows. File extensions mean nothing.<br><br>Some broken operating systems decided to use file extensions as a way of<br>identifying file types because they couldn't figure out how to do it<br>right. *nix doesn't suffer from this inherent limitation of those other
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