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

[Jesse Guardiani]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 3/16/06, Jim Minihane <min02jsm at minihane.tzo.com> wrote:
>   
>> ----Original Message-----
>> From: "Dale E. Martin" <dale at the-martins.org>
>> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:03:00 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor M402U. Supported or not?
>>
>>     
>> What do you mean "super picky"? Is MPEG2 visibly better than MPEG4?
>>     
>
> yes and no... mpeg4 (h263) doesn't handle blacks or solid colors as
> well as mpeg2. mpeg4 (h263) does give better compression though, so
> you get a lower bitrate for a given level of quality. As well h263
> doesn't do higher bitrates as well as mpeg2 from what I understand.
> h264 changes this though. h264 is a subset of mpeg4 video and fixes
> the black level problems and the solid color problems. It also has
> much better compression than mpeg2, it does however require much more
> CPU power to get this compression level.
>   

We're discussing the plextor specifically, which doesn't do h264. It 
does divx. Both mpeg-4,
but different.

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Jesse Guardiani
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