[mythtv-users] Plextor ConvertX tuner

[Nathan Lutchansky]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:15:39PM -0700, Scott Alfter wrote:
> mikko at sorl.net wrote:
> > I just bought a PlextorX and I'm trying to set up a nice mythtv box. I'm
> > not sure if the tuner search channels function isn't working because I
> > sure as hell cannot get it to work.
> 
> I tried one out a few months ago.  Getting it working and capturing video was
> surprisingly easy (my MythTV box is built on top of Gentoo), but the big
> showstopper for me was its insistence on deinterlacing all incoming video.  If
> it was smart enough to do inverse 3:2 pulldown when necessary, that would've
> actually been kinda cool.  Instead, it just spit everything out at 29.97 fps
> progressive-scan, which is useless for archiving stuff to DVD.  I took it back
> to Fry's and got my money back.
> 
> Has this misfeature (bug really, IMNSHO) been corrected in later releases, or
> does it still behave this way?

The hardware has inverse telecine and MPEG2 interlace coding, but
unfortunately these are broken in the current firmware.  I have a
request with the firmware team to fix this, but unfortunately it's not a
customer request so it's pretty low priority.  I don't have an estimate
of when it will be supported.

If your captures are mainly used in DVD authoring, you're better off
with different hardware for the foreseeable future.  -Nathan
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