[mythtv] specification of .nuv file with rjpeg video compression ?!
tormen at gmx.net
tormen at gmx.net
Mon May 28 09:09:33 UTC 2007
Hi.
There is a problem with .nuv files that contain rjpeg compressed video:
mplayer can't play it.
Even though it can play .nuv files with divx compressed video inside!
I am trying to find out, why. So I asked on the mplayer mailinglist for
help. And they seem really willing to help there.
So I want to ask here if there is maybe someone involved in the code
that encodes or decodes the .nuv + rjpeg code in mythtv / mythfrontend
and if he or she could be willing to help me to sort out the problems
that mplayer has when playing this sort of nuv files.
I recorded a short example video with mythtv 0.20.1_p13344 and put it
here: http://posern.org/test/sample.nuv
About this video I got the following answer from the mplayer
mailinglist:
> Well, that file does not contain the quantizers used to encode it. I
> guess mythfrontend uses some default values - MPlayer unfortunately uses
> 0 as default which results only in a black/green screen.
And below is the latest answer of a guy who /seems/ to know what he is
talking about :-)
Hope on some help on this.
Whats my motivation?
Because I have (regularily) many .nuv files that fail to be
reencoded with mythtranscode with the (mysterious) error 247:
2007-05-28 09:53:43.913 Copying Audio while transcoding Video
2007-05-28 09:55:44.658 NVR: lame error '-1'
2007-05-28 09:55:44.670 Transcode: Encountered irrecoverable error in
NVR::WriteAudio
2007-05-28 09:55:44.671 Transcoding
/LINKS/tv/myth/Harald_Schmidt_#_#_2007-05-10,2245.00.nuv failed
[247]
That's the reason - beside that I would love also to be able to play
a tv recording also easily from console (with mplayer) - that I am
interested in mencoder in the hope that his feature to simply copy the
audio information would help me here with this buggy(?) audio
information <<< even though mythtv can play the above video with sound
properly.
Greetings,
tormen.
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:05:16AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:38:55AM +0200, tormen at gmx.net wrote:
> > As I don't know what a "quantizer" is, I wanted to ask:
> > So there is missing some information normaly stored in (the header? of)
> > a .nuv file here?
> Yes, in the section that starts with "DR". That section actually even is
> in that file, but it contains only 0, so that any data in the file is
> multiplied with 0 before it gets displayed - resulting in the green
> frame. Unfortunately that does not seem to be the only problem.
> > Are the missing quantizers part of the .nuv container format or part of
> > the RJPG video compression?
> Not sure what exactly you mean.
> > And is this information that is missing just one number (a quantizer) or
> > many numbers?
> 2 * 64 numbers.
> > And these quantizer were also not part of the nuvinfo output I appended
> > to my first posting?
> > (like rtjpeg_quality: 170 or seektable_offset, height, width or
> > aspect)
> No, but they probably can be derived from the quality setting, I
> currently know neither the formula nor where the appropriate place to
> put this is.
> > If you or someone could give me (short) answers on this questions
> > I would be hoping to have better chances to get this changed/fixed from
> > the mythtv side.
> I first assumed the values are supposed to be derived from the quality
> setting to save the space for 2*64 ints in the file, but that space is
> still wasted in that file.
> You could also ask them if they happen to have a specification around...
> > I know that I can't expect anything here.
> I didn't say I wouldn't fix it, I just don't know yet exactly when and
> how.
> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger
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