[mythtv-users] best USB video capture (composite & audio)

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Chris Pinkham wrote:

> * On Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 08:09:12AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>> The Plextor PX-TV402U is (or at least  was) available from a couple  
>> of
>> vendors at fire sale prices (like $50US).  This is likely because of
>> the coming demise of analog broadcasting.
>>
>> It's a USB device. AFAIK only the MPEG4 modes are supported by Myth
>> but these work well.
>
> I added code quite a while ago to allow capturing MPEG-2 from these
> devices, but I didn't enable the ability to setup the recording  
> profile
> to do so because it didn't have enough testing.  I then forgot about  
> it.
> Recently someone asked me about this so I committed a change last
> night to svn trunk which allows using MPEG-2 in the recording profiles
> for these cards.  Any anyone is tracking trunk instead of -fixes, they
> should be able to test this now.

Thanks for the status update, and the code. I'll dig out one of my  
Plextors and try it. When I was playing with it a year ago the MPEG-4  
modes were a problem for me as the MediaMVP would only deal with  
MPEG-2 modes (though that may have changed by now as well).

beww