[mythtv-users] Plextor M402U. Supported or not?

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 14, 2006, at 5:32 PM, Jim Minihane wrote:

> Great! I had read about your driver issues with MythDora and wasn’t  
> sure if it was a distro only issue. I’m really leaning towards  
> Gentoo. But I like FC4 too. I’ve had experience with FC2 and 3. I’m  
> not worried about MPEG4 usability issues as I’ll almost never burn  
> things to DVD. If I have to, I’ll transcode on those rare  
> occasions. I’ll bet I can store a lot of movies/DVDs to a 2TB NFS/ 
> SMB share.
>
>
At present it looks like the problem is with FC4, and since MythDora  
is partially based on it, it suffers the same problem.

This is not definitive at this point, but that's what it's looking like.

I am certain we will get the matter straightened out sooner or later.

There are many advantages of mpeg4, as you pointed out. Not only less  
space required but in the case of network mounts the traffic is  
reduced. I think it makes 802.11 more viable for connecting a frontend.

I have a couple of SMC devices that are similar to the MediaMVP but  
have wireless networking built-in and can apparently decode mpeg-4.  
It's on my list to see if I can get them to work with Myth, but this  
won't happen anytime soon.

Perhaps a bit over-priced, I think the Plextors are very nice units.  
Refurbs are on the market at reasonable cost, competitive with the PVRs.
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