[mythtv-users] How to raise priority of ticket 13459?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:43:08 +1100, you wrote:

>This ticket
>	https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13459
>is open for 5 months. The last entry (from me) asks
>	 Please give this ticket a higher priority
>but I could not see any improvement. Milestone says "needs_triage"...
>
>There is a large number of recordings that I cannot play, and it seems others
>also experience this.
>
>How do I make this ticket more visible to developers?
>What extra information will help?
>Does anyone know a workaround?

A good workaround seems to be converting the NUV files to MPEG2
container format, but leaving the name with the .nuv extension.  This
made a playable file for me:

mythffmpeg -i 13459.nuv -codec copy 13459.mpg
mv -v 13459.nuv 13459-original.nuv
mv -v 13459.mpg 13459.nuv

The MPEG2 file contains exact copies of the streams in the .nuv file -
no transcoding is done.  But when played from the MPEG2 container,
mythfrontend plays them properly.  Leaving the file name as .nuv means
that you do not need to adjust the database entries for the
recordings.  Mythfrontend, like most media players, ignores the file
extensions and reads the format data at the front of the file to work
out how to play it, so finding an MPEG2 container format in a .nuv
file is no problem at all.

If you have NUV files with other steams in them (such as subtitles),
it would pay to check that the conversion process still works properly
with those streams present.