[mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

[Brandon Sherman]

Interesting...
So, a USB 2.0 card (would also allow a card reader to work for  
photos, etc.) and the Plextor?

> MythTV supports the Plextor out of the box...so to speak.  One
> limitation I've found is that although the unit can natively encode
> mpeg2, MythTV only supports mpeg4 on the Plextor.  In my case, I've
> been trying to setup xbmcmythtv as a frontend, but it doesn't appear
> to work so well with mpeg4.

The laptop is a Pentium III 500 MHz with some amount of RAM but  
easily upgradeable to 512MB.  From reading the various websites, it  
seems like a P-III is the bare-bones minimum for a basic T.V. card  
without hardware encoder support.  I think that the MPEG-4 only will  
be ok, but you aren't clear as to how well it works with MPEG-4.  Is  
it xbmcmythtv with the problems or is the normal frontend also  
slightly buggy?

The laptop has video-out, which should work fine considering it just  
mirrors the internal display which is slightly... not working.  Hence  
this project.

If I have any more questions, you can be pretty sure that I'll be  
asking them on the mailing list here or in some forum somewhere.   
N00bie is I.

Thanks everyone,
Brandon

On Nov 9, 2005, at 6:08 AM, Abre Chase wrote:

> I've been using the Plextor ConvertX with Myth.  It does have linux
> drivers.  I've been using it with Suse 9.3.
>
> http://oss.wischip.com/
>
> http://forums.divx.com/groupee/forums/a/frm/f/996105602
>
> I'm not currently using it with a laptop, but I've got a friend who
> does.  If your laptop doesn't support USB 2.0, you can just throw a
> PCMCIA card in there.
>
> I picked up my Plextor unit on ebay for about $100 used.
>
> - Abre

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