Since upgrading to 0.19, recorded programs seem to get saved with a .mpg extension rather than .nuv. I'm not sure whether the actual underlying codec has changed, but I suspect it has subtly.

Using mythstreamtv I was able to stream recorded programs to my windows box successfully. With 0.19 the stream works correctly but all I get is garbled green video with some junk at the top.

So to eliminate the streaming aspect, I tried playing the recorded mpg straight from vlc on the mythbox (vlc -vvv /myth/tv/xxxx_2006xxxxx.mpg) and it delivers the same green video/garbled output, with VLC reporting corrupted/garbled video frames.

However I can play the recorded program successfully within MythTV - it's definitely not corrupted.

I am suspecting codecs - perhaps VLC needs to be recompiled with support for another codec?

Is anybody else seeing this sort of behaviour?

According to the 0.19 release notes:



I don't think that involved any codec changes.

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HP VL400 (PIII 866), Skystar2 2.6D, PVR350, Nvidia FX5200, 384MB, 200GB, KnoppMyth R5.5

Are these HD recordings or SD?

They're SD - recorded from DVB-T.

I've done a bit more testing and interestingly they work in mplayer, but not in VLC.

Fixed this issue by recompiling vlc from source. Now using 0.8.4a succesfully, in case anybody else is looking for a solution to this issue.