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

[Jim Minihane]

Great! I had read about your driver issues with MythDora and wasn't sure if
it was a distro only issue. I'm really leaning towards Gentoo. But I like
FC4 too. I've had experience with FC2 and 3. I'm not worried about MPEG4
usability issues as I'll almost never burn things to DVD. If I have to, I'll
transcode on those rare occasions. I'll bet I can store a lot of movies/DVDs
to a 2TB NFS/SMB share.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

 

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brian Wood
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 11:17 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor M402U. Supported or not?

 

 

On Mar 13, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Jim Minihane wrote:





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?

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.

Who has the Plextor M402U working and on what distro. What did it take?

I do, or did to be accurate.

 

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.

 

mythtvsetup knows all about the units, and they show up as a capture card
type in the setup menus.

 

There is a Gentoo HowTo with more details at:

 

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_go7007#MythTV

 

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.

 

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).

 

But the video looked great, and did save a lot of space.

 

 

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