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

[Jim Minihane]

----Original Message-----
From: "Dale E. Martin" <dale at the-martins.org>
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:03:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor M402U. Supported or not?

> > Who has the Plextor M402U working and on what distro. What did it
> take?
> 
> I've got two running on Debian sarge + 2.6.x kernel images (grabbed
> from
> unstable) and hand-compiled modules and mythtv.  They're working really
> well for me.
> 
> Two issues that I've had:
> - you can only select mpeg-4, even in 0.19.  I'm not super picky about
> video quality so it's no big deal, but...
> - transcode to mpeg-2 does not seem to work.  I'd like to hear someone
> else
> chime in on this and see if it's me doing something stupid or if it's
> really not supported.
> 
> Just tonight I backported more recent codecs back to Debian stable and
> mplayer will player the .nuv files now, so it seems like support for
> these
> units is getting better all of the time.
> 
> Take care,
>   Dale
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What do you mean "super picky"? Is MPEG2 visibly better than MPEG4?