[mythtv-users] NUV TO WINDOWS PC

[Raphael Pooser]

Niels+Ken
Good stuff.  Thanks for the info.  Will be looking into nuvexport and 
dsmyth.  I'm sure that I could put a script into the user jobs section 
and then just execute a nuvexport script for whatever recordings I want 
to watch over on the windows box.  Myth sure was built with no end of 
possibilities.
As a side note, I only use windows to game.  However, if someone is 
watching something I don't want to on the TV machine, this will be 
useful to then use the windows machine to watch some things in parallel.
Raphael

Niels Dybdahl wrote:

>     So, there is the built in software transcoder in myth, and you can use
>     that to transcode to mpeg4.  Once you do that, the files are named
>     still
>     with extension .nuv.  Can you open and play those in windows media
>     player (or any other player for windows like ati fileplayer for
>     example)?  
>
>
> Yes you can do that. But after transcode the file has a "real" .nuv 
> "header"/envelope, so you need the dsmyth filter (dsmyth.sf.net 
> <http://dsmyth.sf.net>) to be able of using the .nuv file on Windows. 
> In addition you need a MPEG4 codec on your Windows PC.
>
> When you have transcoded the file to MPEG4, you can replace the header 
> with the nuv2avi application (on Linux!), which without recoding 
> creates an MPEG4 AVI file from the nuv file. Note that time stamps in 
> the nuv file are lost, so you might get audio sync problems with the 
> resulting AVI file, especially if you have the recording from a noisy 
> source.
> The dsmyth filter and nuvexport to DIVX format are methods that handle 
> the time stamps correctly in my experience.
>
> Also note that the dsmyth filter is a "Direct Show" filter and not a 
> "Video for Windows" filter. So with dsmyth you can use nuv files in 
> "Direct Show" players such as Windows Media Player and ZoomPlayer, but 
> you can not use it in Windows video editing applications, that require 
> "Video for Windows" access to the video file.
>
> Niels Dybdahl
>
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