[mythtv-users] transcoding to playback on windows

[Daniel Parnell]

Is it possible to get just the transcode code out of CVS and use that with an otherwise .11 installation?
If so what files do I need to get?

Thanks

Daniel

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2003 1:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] transcoding to playback on windows


On Tuesday 23 September 2003 21:16, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> I want to take some of my videos and convert them to a format that I can 
> watch on a windows machine.
> 
> I been reading the archives, and just want to confirm I've got this 
right....
> 
> Okay, I set a transcode profile, I then while watching a video, hit x to 
> start to a transcode, once that's done, using mencoder from mplayer 1.01pre, 
> I can transcode the video to a divx or avi format viewable on windows.
> 
> The former way was to patch mplayer with matt zimmerman's patch, use 
> mythmkmovie against the nuv file and then run mencoder against that.
> 
> Have I got this right, or have I missed anything?

No.  Well, it depends on which version of Myth and MPlayer/mencoder you're 
using, but with current Myth CVS you cannot use mencoder to transcode Myth 
.nuv files, as the Myth .nuv format has changed and there is no 
mplayer/mencoder patch for it.

Currently (again, this is with CVS Myth) the only way I know of to transcode 
to a Windows-playable format is nuvexport.  This is a perl script that uses 
ffmpeg and mjpegtools together with mythtranscode's new ability to output raw 
audio & video streams.  It supports transcoding to DivX (.avi), WMV, SVCD 
(MPEG-2) and VCD (MPEG-1).  It will also process any cutlists you've set up, 
so you can cut the commercials out, then transcode to an archival 
Windows-playable format.

> 
> So, what happens with a video that is not in the database.... How do I 
> transcode that one? This is an orphan video from a previous verision of 
> mythtv .9 or .10 IIRC.


Check out myth.rebuilddatabase.pl in the contrib directory of the mythtv 
source.

-JAC
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