[mythtv] Why nuppelvideo mpeg4?

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Reza Naima wrote:

>I was wondering why we are using the nuppelvideo container for mpeg4? It
>can't be hard to convert to a different format - nuv2avi works great.
>Why is it that we're not using avi's (for example) rather than nuv's to
>store the files?  mplayer (used by xbmc) has a lot of issues with the
>.nuv files, and unless you have the special codecs installed on windows
>.nuv mpeg4 files will not play.  
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Because the AVI container sucks ass for one.


>How hard would it be (and are there any reasons no to) modify the code
>such that it will generate more friendly mpeg4 files?
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See above.


>p.s. what is all the seek information in the DB for?  why isn't that
>in the video file itself?
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Are you familiar at all with the various container formats at all?