[mythtv-users] Plextor external USB capture device

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Jim Minihane wrote:

> Yeah, That's what I thought was kind of weird. I've just installed  
> FC4 on a
> machine. I had errors until I didn't create a partition as xfs or  
> jfs. Now
> that I've updated it (yum), I'll try creating a partition as jfs or  
> xfs in
> the remaining 38GB. It wouldn't recognize my onboard sound either.  
> I'd just
> LOVE to find a distro that doesn't throw errors. Knoppmyth wouldn't  
> install
> either. So here it is... Do the Plextors work with Mythdora or not?  
> I'll
> switch to PVR-500's if I have to. Will they be recognized  
> automatically? I'd
> rather not go through distro after distro. If no one lese has done  
> this then
> I'll have to but I suspect that nothing I am about to try has never  
> been
> done. I'd like to leverage previous knowledge.

At present the Plextors do not work with MythDora, I suspect, but do  
not know for sure, that they will not work on any FC-4 system.

They did work for me on a Gentoo system and a Knoppmyth system, both  
0.18 and 0.19.

The problem seems to be related to the ALSA modules and the Plextor  
drivers (go7007) not playing well together. If oyu are having sound  
problems you will have to get that straightened out before any Myth  
Distro will work.

I really believe that the Plextor problem will be resolved, and we  
will all laugh about how stupid the problem really was. I would be  
surprised if it takes more than 2 or 3 weeks to get it figured out,  
but I have been surprised before :-)

The 500s should work on any recent distro using recent IVTV drivers.  
They should be automatically recognized but not as a 500, I think  
they get recognized as 2 150s (which is what they really are).