[mythtv-users] Mpeg4 Mpeg2 and non-mythTV viewing

[Ryan Rawson]

Hi,

I have a WinTV 250 card, a great card, especially awesome how it does 
hardware mpeg2 encoding.  Well supported in mythtv right out of the 
box, I have no complaints.

The tricky part for me is that I am not viewing the video on a mythtv 
frontend.  I am using vlc on a Mac OS X machine over the network to 
view the mpeg2 streams mythTV recorded for me.  This works out great.  
Except I decided to mess around with transcoding, and now I've 
transcoded some recordings to mpeg4.  Now the .nuv files have system 
headers and vlc isn't happy anymore.  I messed around with nuvexport 
but it didn't want to work for me, plus it kept on trying to transcode 
the streams.  I just want to extract the AV mpeg4 stream in a manner 
that VLC can read!  Nothing else fancy than that for me :-)

Anyone else use VLC as a 'front end' to mythtv?

Thanks,
-ryan