[mythtv-users] Nuvexport to an Archos AV500?

[Byron Poland]

On 1/3/06, Bret Schuhmacher <bschuhmacher at workbrain.com> wrote:
> Hi all - Happy New Year!
>
> I just received an Archos AV500, which says it'll play .avi files in
> MPEG-4 Simple Profile with a soundtrack in MP3 or WMA format.  I went
> out and bought a Plextor PX-TV402U-NA USB tuner, which hardware encodes
> avi in DivX and MPEG-4 (full specs at
> http://www.plextor.com/english/products/PX-TV402Uadvancedtechspec.htm#).
> I'm using the latest KnoppMyth for simplicity.
>
> Ok, now my question...  What's the simplest way to use Myth to get an
> avi acceptable to the Archos AV500?  I've recorded a few shows with
> Myth, but trying to export the files via nuvexport fails because of a
> parameter to ffmpeg, "-vcat", which isn't supported by my ffmpeg
> (provided by KnoppMyth).  I tried to update ffmpeg but nuvexport
> disabled almost all my choices.  I should probably build ffmpeg myself,
> huh?
>
> I wish I could just record and use the files directly instead of having
> to transcode them (which seems to take as long or longer than the show
> itself).  Can the transcoding begin almost simultaneously with the
> recording (i.e. the transcoding would start a few seconds after the show
> starts recording, so it finishes almost simultaneously and I wouldn't
> have to wait another hour or two at the end)?
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> Rgds,
>
> Bret
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> psychiatrist is our "friend."  -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey
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With the Plextor recording to mpeg4 and a recording profile that
encodes the audio to mp3 all you should have to do is run the nuv
through avidemux to change the container from .nuv to .avi.

The Plextor doesn't do hardware encoding of the audio, it outputs
uncompressed pcm data.      I believe the recording profile in Myth
will allow you to set it up to record and encode straight to mp3. 
Once that is done, the file should be all set, except it will be a
nuv, and not an avi..  avidemux will allow you to load the nuv file,
and then just check that the output format is set as avi, and then
save the file.  it won't reprocess the audio or video it will just
copy it to an avi container.  hopefully that will play on your device.