Raphael Pooser wrote: > So, there is the built in software transcoder in myth, and you can use > that to transcode to mpeg4. Once you do that, the files are named > still with extension .nuv. Can you open and play those in windows > media player (or any other player for windows like ati fileplayer for > example)? In your example you changed the extension to .avi but > otherwise it looks to do about that same as if you used the transcoder > in myth, except that you are tailoring the files to be much smaller > for your own purposes. > Raphael
Think of .avi not as a specific encoding but as a 'container'. It is a flexible file format which contains different encoded data and slaps a 'header' onto the data to indicate what type is inside the file. Regardless, you'll need a codec installed on your machine to understand however the data was encoded. And you need to know what is inside that .avi file so you know what codec you need. Windows Media Player comes with many codecs installed. The encoder command Martin mentioned in this 'mencoder' command used the 'msmpeg4v2' which is the Microsoft MPEG4 Version 2 codec which is supported in Windows XP SP2. Here is the default list of codecs for WMP 9/10. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;899113#appliesto Windows Media Player does not come with MPEG-2 codec installed. However, most people who have installed a DVD application such as PowerDVD or WinDVD will have a codec installed by those applications so it works on those machines. When WMP tries to play MPEG-2 it will use the codec installed by the DVD application. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users