[mythtv-users] Converting MPEG2 nuv files to something else?

[Niklas Brunlid]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:29:23 +0000, Neil Milne <neil.milne at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hi
> I've been searching through the archives and there is a lot of stuff
> about converting (or failing to!) MPEG2 nuv files to other formats.
> I'm interested in either burning shows to DVD, or converting to Xvid.
>
> Does anyone currently do this successfully, using either linux or
> windows tools? If so, could you perhaps post a mini-howto? I'm
> familiar with windows tools such as Virtualdub but I'm not really sure
> how to go about using the various linux tools - I did try nuvexport
> but it didn't work and I've read there are issues with nuvexport and
> MPEG2 files (my sources are all DVB cards).
>
> Any hints or pointers would be appreciated :-)

avidemux2 is a great tool both for cutting commercials without  
transcoding, and for transcoding to xvid+ogg:
http://avidemux.berlios.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=6

For simple DVD authoring, I use DVDStyler to create an ISO:
http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/docs.html

Both are available for both windows and linux. They aren't integrated with  
MythTV, but they work fine for me.

/ Niklas