[mythtv-users] OTA HD in .nuv format?!

[Rich West]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/02/2007 01:00 PM, Rich West wrote:
>   
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> On 10/02/2007 11:50 AM, Rich West wrote:
>>>       
>>>> While migrating my main recording file system to a new SATA drive, I
>>>> noticed that the last few OTA HD shows that were recorded have a .nuv
>>>> extension.  I checked the profiles for those shows and they are not set
>>>> to transcode.  I don't remember manually transcoding them, either.  One
>>>> of the shows was recorded late last night, so I know I didn't transcode
>>>> that one.
>>>>
>>>> Is there something obvious that I am missing here...?
>>>>
>>>> I checked the archvies, but since I really don't know what could be
>>>> causing the problem, I wasn't too sure as to what to search for..
>>>>         
>>> Is it really in NUV format or is it just a file with a .nuv extension?
>>>
>>> $ file 1009_20051119195800.nuv
>>> 1009_20051119195800.nuv: data
>>>
>>> is a NUV file
>>>       
>> I did check via file earlier.  It's coming back as "data".
>>
>> # file "CSI- Miami - 2007-10-01, 10-00 PM - Cyber- lebrity.nuv"
>> CSI- Miami - 2007-10-01, 10-00 PM - Cyber- lebrity.nuv: data
>>
>> Totally weird that it would do this..
>>     
>
> Sounds to me like it was actually transcoded.
>
> The other possibility is that the file was corrupted and you're (doing
> something extremely crazy like) running mythrename.pl without the --link
> option.  IIRC the 0.20-fixes version of mythrename.pl uses the file
> command to determine file type, so a corrupted MPEG file that file shows
> as "data" would be given an nuv extension.
>
> Note, my personal bias doesn't exist in the above parenthetical.  You
> just think it does.  ;)
:)

Yes, ran mythrename.pl a little while back (not realizing that it
renamed the files by default.. I was expecting "usage" output)..  I ran
it again this morning prior to migrating to the larger disk.

-Rich