[mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

[James L. Paul]

Khanh Tran wrote:
> Tsunami MPEG encoder and Tsunami MPEG DVD Author.
> 
> http://www.tmpg-inc.com/product

I believe that makes my point. You are using the Tsunami MPEG encoder to 
reprocess the files precisely _because_ they are not "already ready to 
go to DVD authoring apps."

There's a lot more to DVD stream-compliance than MPEG2.

> -Khanh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James L. Paul [mailto:james at mauibay.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:10 AM
> To: khanh at khanh.net; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD
> 
> Khanh Tran wrote:
>>Don't even bother doing anything.  You're making it way too
> complicated.
>>The NUV files produced by the PVR-250, 350 and probably the 150 and 
>>500 (I just don't have one) ARE MPEG-2 formatted files.  Just make 
>>sure you don't have a transcoder scheduled to convert it to something 
>>else.  I usually copy it over to a Windows box to cut out commercials,
> 
>>but either way, it's already ready to go to DVD authoring apps.
>>
>>-Khanh
> 
> Please name any DVD authoring applications that will accept PVR-x50
> MPEG2 files unmodified. I strongly suspect you haven't been doing this
> yourself, but in case you really are, I'd love to know what you are
> using. :)
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Terry Griffin
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:20 PM
>>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD
>>
>>The problem with searching the archives on popular questions is that
> you
>>have to wade through all the posts saying "search the archives" before
>>you find the posts that have useful information. That was the problem
> I
>>experienced when trying to resolve the 0.17 daylight savings time
> issue.
>>I found lots of posts telling me to search the archives when that's
> what
>>I was already doing. It was very frustrating. It's like having an FAQ
>>where the answer to every question is "Look in the FAQ you dolt."
>>
>>Stuff like this needs to get migrated in to some sort of real FAQ,
> even
>>if the FAQ contains nothing but links to the *useful* postings in the
>>archive. Then people can be told to look in the FAQ instead of the
>>archives, and they'll get better results when they look there.
>>
>>Terry
>>
>>On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:25 pm, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>>>	Here we go again.... A quick search of the archives will reveal 
>>>dozens of posts and limitations on the subject.
>>>
>>>On Tue, 3 May 2005 astroguy67 at comcast.net wrote:
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I have just installed MythTV 0.18 on a FC3 box with a Hauppauge 
>>>>PVR350 card.  I have been capturing video using the default encoding
>>>>of MPEG2-PS.  There are a couple of DVD encoding options.  My 
>>>>question is this, does switching to one of the DVD codecs allow me 
>>>>to copy files to DVD that are directly playable?  If instad of a 
>>>>direct copy, I want to author a DVD with captured video, what format
>>>>should it be captured with before I try to convert it using one of
>>the NUV utilities?
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>-jim mckay
> ************************************************************************
>>*
>>>* Cory Papenfuss
>>*
>>>* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student
>>*
>>>* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
>>*
>>>**********************************************************************
>>>***
>>>
>>>
>>>
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