[mythtv-users] MPEG-4 format differences: DVD transcode & TVtranscode

[Jason Ramey]

Here's a download link that will give you the directshow filters necessary
to playback .nuv files directly under windows:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsmyth/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Monks" <mythtv at skunkeye.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG-4 format differences: DVD transcode &
TVtranscode


> > The transcode that runs when you're watching a TV recording and press
"X"
> > doesn't work so well. There's no command line for it that I can see,
only
> > slider settings that in my newness I can't relate to command-line
> > parameters. The resulting file, although it plays fine under TV/Watch
> > Recordings, is squished horizontally if I copy the file to the
/myth/video
> > folder and play it with mplayer.
> > That's not as big a deal as the fact that I can't play the resulting
file on
> > my Windows PC! I don't know whether the tv transcode is DivX or XviD or
> > what...
> >
> > So... My question is:
> > How do I get the tv recordings transcode (the one activated by pressing
"X"
> > while watching a recording) to have the same settings as the "Rip DVD"
> > transcode settings?
>
> These are two completely different beasts.  The transcode that the TV
> functions of MythTV use is based on Myth code, and produces (AFAIK)
> Myth-only output.  These are MythTV's NUV-encapsulated format, and nothing
> on Windows (again, AFAIK) recognizes them.  This can be accessed via
> command-line, by the way, as "mythtranscode".
>
> The transcode that you run as "transcode" on the command line or from
> within MythDVD is a seperate, standalone project intended as a more
> general-purpose transcoding tool.  That's why it produces XVid files that
> play on Windows.
>
> To export MythTV recordings to a more standard format, you want
> "nuvexport".  http://forevermore.net/mythtv/  This is a command-line
> utility that will export Myth's NUV files into other formats, including
> MPEG-4 and SVCD MPEG-2.