[mythtv-users] Multiple Plextor Audio Solution ???

Nathan Lutchansky lutchann-mythtvusers at litech.org
Sun Feb 12 02:52:09 UTC 2006


On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:37:31PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> I've decided I like the Plextor units, getting an mpeg4 file on disk  
> without the CPU load of doing it with a frame-grabber or the time to  
> transcode it from mpeg2 is very nice. I would like to add another  
> such device.
> 
> The video end should be no problem (within the limitations of the USB  
> bus), but audio seems like a problem, as it is not multiplexed into  
> the mpeg stream.

The downside to this that I can think of is that you have some
additional load on your processor to do the audio encoding.  Is there
some other problem you've run into?

> My mobo's integrated AC97 has only 1 PCM input, as I would assume is  
> true of most such devices.
> 
> Does anyone know of a solution which would provide multiple PCM  
> inputs?

Maybe I just don't understand what you're trying to do, but why can't
you use the audio inputs on the ConvertX?  -Nathan
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