[mythtv-users] Plextor external USB capture device

[Jim Minihane]

I thought the driver issue was only on Mythdora. Not on FC4 in general.

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brian Wood
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:36 AM
> To: nathan at paysonlinux.org; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor external USB capture device
> 
> 
> On Mar 25, 2006, at 6:57 PM, Nathan England wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Anyone used a plextor USB capture box? I found the M402U refurb for 65
> > bucks... Are they any good?
> >
> 
> MythTV has support for them, but only for MPEG-4 compression, which
> is not all bad. They show up in the mythsetup menu as a capture card
> type.
> 
> There are some issues getting the drivers compiled on FC4 based
> systems, some sort of problem with the ALSA modules, don't know if
> they have been worked out yet.
> 
> But I had a couple of them working on a Gentoo box and a Debian-based
> machine, they work quite well.
> 
> I was using the "TV" version with the tuner but the non-tuner version
> should work the same.
> 
> One issue with the "TV" version is that, as they are grounded through
> the TV coax and the USB connector they are a bit prone to ground
> loops putting AC hum in the video, but good grounding should make
> that problem minimal.
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