[mythtv-users] Multiple Plextor Audio Solution ???

[Brian Wood]

I've decided I like the Plextor units, getting an mpeg4 file on disk  
without the CPU load of doing it with a frame-grabber or the time to  
transcode it from mpeg2 is very nice. I would like to add another  
such device.

The video end should be no problem (within the limitations of the USB  
bus), but audio seems like a problem, as it is not multiplexed into  
the mpeg stream.

My mobo's integrated AC97 has only 1 PCM input, as I would assume is  
true of most such devices.

Does anyone know of a solution which would provide multiple PCM  
inputs? Obviously something that would play nice with ALSA? Even  
something that created a multiplexed stream would have to  
differentiate between multiple Plextor audio feeds.

I've already found a $10 USB device that can accept the line audio  
from an HD-3000, thus allowing a Plextor and a 3000 to co-exist  
(haven't tested this yet), but multiple Plextors looks to be  
problematic.

Anyway, when everyone gets through upgrading I'd appreciate some  
thoughts on this :-)


Brian Wood
beww at beww.org