<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 13, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Jim Minihane wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">I’ve been reading conflicting articles about the status of the Plextor M402U. Is it supported or not? If it does work? Can it selectively do MPEG2 or 4?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">I’d like to use the Plextor in my Myth system but can’t find solid information. If not the Plextor, then what USB capture devices work well? What about external Firewire devices. I just don’t have room for all the internal PVR cards and serial cards for the DirecTV tuners I want.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Who has the Plextor M402U working and on what distro. What did it take?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>I do, or did to be accurate.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I had one of them working on a Gentoo system running 0.18, and I had two connected and working on the same system when I changed it to KnoppMyth 5A30.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>mythtvsetup knows all about the units, and they show up as a capture card type in the setup menus.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is a Gentoo HowTo with more details at:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_go7007#MythTV">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_go7007#MythTV</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am presently running a MythDora 2.0 (MythTV 0.19) system and I am having trouble getting the drivers to load. They compile fine but I get alsa-related errors when I try and load the modules. I do not think this problem is related to 0.19, and I believe I will be able to resolve the matter when I get the time required.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>They can only be used in MPEG-4 mode at present, at least this was true with 0.18. This will cause me trouble with a MediaMVP frontend, and makes creating a DVD more problematic (MythBurn will not work in stock form, you would have to transcode to MPEG-2).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But the video looked great, and did save a lot of space.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>