[mythtv-users] best USB video capture (composite & audio)

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 08:09:12AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> The Plextor PX-TV402U is (or at least  was) available from a couple of  
> vendors at fire sale prices (like $50US).  This is likely because of  
> the coming demise of analog broadcasting.
> 
> It's a USB device. AFAIK only the MPEG4 modes are supported by Myth  
> but these work well.

I added code quite a while ago to allow capturing MPEG-2 from these
devices, but I didn't enable the ability to setup the recording profile
to do so because it didn't have enough testing.  I then forgot about it.
Recently someone asked me about this so I committed a change last
night to svn trunk which allows using MPEG-2 in the recording profiles
for these cards.  Any anyone is tracking trunk instead of -fixes, they
should be able to test this now.

> If you only want to capture from a camera I think there is a version  
> without a tuner, but I haven't heard of anyone using it with Myth, and  
> for $50 you might as well get a tuner.

I have the tunerless M402U version and it works fine with Myth.  I paid
$30 for it as a refurb 6-8 months ago.

--
Chris