I've installed Mythbuntu, which was pre-packaged with `libmythtv-perl`
-- which supports nuvexport, but apparently doesn't include all of
nuvexport.  `sudo aptitude search ~dnuvexport` only finds `libmythtv-
perl`.

I wouldn't call nuvexport absolutely "essential", but it's probably the
most useful of all the addons.  Without it, users have to dig up the
cryptic filename for a show (1234_20200805...ts), run `ffmpeg -i
1234_20200805100000.ts -vcodec h264 -acodec aac newfile.mp4`, and after
all that manual effort they have get something with no metadata, and
it's not shared on the network.  To preserve the metadata, they have to
keep around the large *.ts files, so in the end a lot of drive space is
wasted.

If a device can't handle the MythTV mpeg2 files over DLNA (e.g. my Vizio
can't handle most of them), users have to install `rygel` to share the
manual transcodings on the network.

Overall it's a labor intensive and low quality UX.

The separate install of nuvexport is a disaster.  The MythTV wiki has a
few different links to that project and they're all bad.

* svn.forevermore.net/nuvexport (dead/unreachable, at least to Tor users)
* http://www.mythbuntu.org/wiki/MythExport (404)
* http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_MythTV_to_iPod (nuvexport derivitive project 
CloudFlared)

Possible workaround:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythbrake or
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Handbrake_userjob

Looks like they use some metadata, but the output probably doesn't
replace the input file in the catalog.

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