[mythtv-users] nuvexport without transcoding?

Chris Petersen lists at forevermore.net
Tue Oct 14 00:12:04 EDT 2003


> After downloding nuvexport and playing with it a bit, my basic 
> understanding is that it uses mythtranscode to decode the .nuv file, and 
> then uses ffmpeg to re-encode the data in the new format.  Is this correct?

yes

> If so, has anyone looked into doing a .nuv->.avi conversion without 
> re-encoding the data?  For example, if I'm recording .nuv files in mpeg4 
> at 640x480, I don't really want to decode the data and then re-encode it 
> to convert/export it as an .avi.  Shouldn't it be possible to just 
> extract the mpeg4 data and reformat it as an .avi file (or whatever) 
> without any additional encoding?

You could, but that would require mencoder being able to understand
myth's nuv format, which it hasn't in awhile.  Other than that, it
should be pretty easy to just use the stream copying functions of
mencoder.

-Chris



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