[mythtvnz] Introduction

Duncan Kennington mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:16:30 +1300 (NZDT)


Quoting Steve Hodge <stevehodge@gmail.com>:

> On 12/1/05, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> > Mythtv stores your tv in one of two formats:
> > 1. both formats use the nuv container and filename extension, ie
> > file.nuv.
> 
> Video compressed by MythTV (from framebuffer capture cards) is stored
> with in nuv containers. Video from hardware encoders is stored "as is"
> but named with a ".nuv" extension, as you say below. It's not a nuv
> container file though. I believe the current development version names
> these files correctly.

Correct - SVN versions store the Hauppauge-captured streams with a .mpg 
extension.  They have also shortened the filenames from 
chanid_starttime_endtime.ext to chaid_starttime.ext.