I just grabbed this patch out of the gentoo portage tree. It should enable you to play the transcoded .nuv files.
If you are using Gentoo there is a +mythtv USE flag that will enable this patch. I am using this patch with MPlayer 1.0_pre6 --Dave Madsen On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:15:31 -0800 (PST), Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I do not know the full specifics of the file > format, MythTV does not really use NuppelVideo: > - For MPEG-2 recordings (i.e. PVR-x50), it uses MPEG-2 > - For non-MPEG-2 recordings (i.e. BT8x8 cards), it > uses a modified NuppelVideo format, of which I don't > know the details. > (I don't know about the MythTV MPEG-4 recordings, > because I never examined them.) > > Both of these files have a ".nuv" extension, > regardless of the actual contents. Neither of these > files contain the NuppelVideo that MPlayer is > expecting. > > There was a patch for MPlayer (the 0.9.x series) that > could be applied that would play the MythTV modified > NuppelVideo files. I successfully used it when I was > using a software capture card (I now have dual > PVR-x50s). When the file was played without the > patch, some frames played, but mostly there was green > garbage all over them. > > -- Joe > > --- Robin Elvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Friday 11 February 2005 18:55, Joseph A. Caputo > > wrote: > > > On Friday 11 February 2005 12:53, Robin Elvin > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I have tried the current version of Mplayer on > > both Windows and Linux > > > and it plays nuv files fine. > > > > > > > > Sounds like you have a bad installation. > > > > > > No, it sounds like _you_ have a PVR-x50, M-179, > > pcHDTVx000, Air2PC or > > > DVB card. If you do, then your recordings are NOT > > NuppelVideo, even > > > though they have a ".nuv" extension; that's just > > for Myth's > > > convenience; the files are really standard MPEG-2. > > > > > > For anyone using software encoding, or transcoding > > to Myth's MPEG-4 or > > > RTjpeg format, there is no external player > > software that can reliably > > > play back Myth's Nuppel-container .nuv files. The > > MPlayer patch has > > > not been maintained since version > > 0.90-pre-something-or-other. > > > > > > -JAC > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mythtv-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > I do indeed have a DVB card. I stand humbly > > corrected on the nuv format. But > > the Nuppelvideo homepage states: > > > > <snip> > > NEW! The best and coolest Linux video player MPlayer > > (>=0.60) can play > > NuppelVideo files! > > </snip> > > > > So what does this mean? Are you saying the nuv > > extension is used regardless of > > the content? Under what circumtances does Myth > > actually produce a real > > Nuppelvideo file? (Sorry, I'm not being deliberately > > dense on this) > > > > Slightly OT: So if they are MPEG2 can I speed up > > making DVDs? nuvexport is > > taking about 4 hours per show. > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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