[mythtv] MythTV: Windows frontend

[Joseph A. Caputo]

Christian Hack wrote:

>>>Perhaps you could explain then why the .nuv files created 
>>
>>by my DVB-t
>>
>>>card aren't playable? Windows Media Player and mplayer play files
>>>captured with dvbstream fine but WMP won't play the .nuv 
>>
>>file at all and
>>
>>>mplayer plays it without audio and an error to the effect 
>>
>>of "no audio
>>
>>>stream".
>>
>>
>>Aren't DVB recordings similar to PVR-x50 recording; i.e., 
>>MPEG-2?  If so, try 
>>renaming your DVB .nuv file to .mpg or .mpeg.  WMP, I think, 
>>is pretty stupid 
>>about determining file content solely from the extension.
>>
> 
> 
> That's exactly what I'm doing and why I ask the question. Apparently
> renaming works for PVR-x50 files but doesn't for DVB generated files.
> The .nuv files can't be simply MPEG-2 files lke the PVR-x50 files. They
> must include more info which confuses WMP and mplayer.
> 
> Christian

You don't have auto-transcoding enabled, do you?  If you transcode your 
DVB recordings they end up in Myth's .nuv format.

-JAC