Re: [mythtv-users] static when mp3 encoding convertx audio

2005-11-27 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 02:43:21PM -0800, Brian Edmonds wrote: > If I use a recording profile on my ConvertX that encodes the audio to > MP3 then all I get is loud static (it occasionally sounds a bit like > the audio should, but it's generally unintelligible). If I set it to > record raw audio at

Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing legacy VHS tapes

2005-10-18 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:16:49PM -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote: > At last I managed to make Plextor ConvertX M402U to work under SuSE > Linux 9.3 and MythTV to see the input video. > > I bought this capture device, not to record scheduled shows, but rather > to convert legacy VHS tape recordings t

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor ConvertX tuner

2005-09-28 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:15:39PM -0700, Scott Alfter wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just bought a PlextorX and I'm trying to set up a nice mythtv box. I'm > > not sure if the tuner search channels function isn't working because I > > sure as hell cannot get it to work. > > I tried one o

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor ConvertX tuner

2005-09-28 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 08:14:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just bought a PlextorX and I'm trying to set up a nice mythtv box. I'm > not sure if the tuner search channels function isn't working because I > sure as hell cannot get it to work. "Search channels"? If it requires signal str

Re: [mythtv-users] plextor convertx tv-402u audio dying

2005-08-18 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:37:55AM -0700, Adam Felson wrote: > > Nathan Lutchansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:46:09PM -0700, Adam Felson wrote: > > > I recently got a plextor usb2 tv capture box and am having problems with > > >

Re: [mythtv-users] plextor convertx tv-402u audio dying

2005-08-16 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:46:09PM -0700, Adam Felson wrote: > I recently got a plextor usb2 tv capture box and am having problems with > the audio. It can barely go 20-40 minutes without dying. Once the > recording is stopped and another one started then the problem is > cleared... for a little

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor ConvertX troubles

2005-06-16 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:23:28AM -0700, Jason H wrote: > The video goes off the screen at 1024x768, so I only > get 1/4 of the picture (this I can chalk up to not > really an encoder issue) Yeah, this is a playback issue, right? Since the ConvertX doesn't capture at 1024x768... > but the vide

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor M402U or TV402U: anybody gone there?

2005-05-22 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 06:28:59PM -0400, Chris Taylor wrote: > I've searched this forum, but have seen very little discussion of the > Plextor TV402U or M402U USB devices used for MythTV capture. Is anyone > doing this? Well, I have one (of several) that I use with MythTV, but since I wrote the

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U problem

2005-05-19 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:05:17AM -0700, EC wrote: >I have an odd (apparently) PX-TV402U problem with my MythTV box(es). > When I try to record or to watch Live TV, I get a green screen with > static at the top 1/2 inch or so of the screen. I do get sound. Go into the setup menu, into record

Re: [mythtv-users] Any Plextor PX-TV402U-NA users?

2005-05-13 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:31:41PM -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:15:20PM -0400, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: > > MPEG4 codecs. If you push it much lower, the bitrate control in the > > hardware has trouble maintaining consistency and the quality will suck. &

Re: [mythtv-users] Any Plextor PX-TV402U-NA users?

2005-05-12 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:51:25PM -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:31:49PM -0400, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:47:10PM -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > Are there any other people out there using the Plextor PX-TV402U-NA? > &

Re: [mythtv-users] Any Plextor PX-TV402U-NA users?

2005-05-12 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:47:10PM -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > Are there any other people out there using the Plextor PX-TV402U-NA? > If so, I'd like to compare experiences, offline. I'm getting very fed > up (already) with this device, and I hope I'm doing something wrong. As of two days ago, it

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U not recognized by KnoppMythTv

2005-05-04 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:15:09PM +0100, Peter Pauwels wrote: > Again I tried the gorecord application by executing > "gorecord -duration 60 test.avi". It returned the > following output: > > /dev/video0 is a GO7007 device at USB address 3-1:1.0 > Attempting to determine audio device...using audi

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U not recognized by KnoppMythTv

2005-05-01 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:26:24PM +0100, Peter Pauwels wrote: > kernel: usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 > usb.agent[4333]: wis-ezusb: loaded successfully > /etc/hotplug/usb/wis-ezusb: load > /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ezusb/hpi_PX-TV402U.hex for 93b/a004/1 >

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U not recognized by KnoppMythTv

2005-04-30 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:05:22PM +0100, Peter Pauwels wrote: > Knoppmyth release 5A15, which according to the > changelog contains support for Plextor > PX-M402U/PX-TV402U and includes MythTv 0.18 It sounds like the drivers for the Plextor or something related are not installed. > >From /var/l

Re: [mythtv-users] tv402u-na problems with mythtv

2005-04-28 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:12:53AM -0400, Not TheAntiChrist wrote: > I am able to use the gorecord program that ships with the Plextor > Convertx px-tv402u -na just fine. Sadly, even though I'm using mythtv > 0.18 which boasts tv402u support, the tv is always mostly green with a > little static at

Re: [mythtv-users] Question about Plextor TV402U

2005-04-28 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:11:23PM -0500, Henrik Bentel wrote: > Does the Plextor have a component input (YPrPb)? Nope. It's composite/S-Video only. -Nathan pgpgEdg1f7xR1.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mytht

Re: [mythtv-users] A/V out of sync due to dropped frames

2005-04-07 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:21:21PM -0600, Justin Gombos wrote: > BTW- I'd like to point out that this problem seems to occurr with the > Plextor tv402u. Sometimes part way into a capture video will get > quite choppy, and audio out of sync, which is probably a symptom of > the problem you describe

[mythtv-users] Plextor TV402U testing

2005-03-25 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
Hey y'all, Last Sunday, Isaac checked in support for the Plextor TV402U MPEG4 encoder using the open-source Linux driver released through Plextor. Thanks Isaac! I tried it, seems to work. In addition, Plextor released version 0.9.4 of the driver this week which supports the PAL/SECAM and NTSC-

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA

2005-03-09 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:49:07PM +, David wrote: > Nathan Lutchansky wrote: > >However, the reference documentation is only available under the standard > >WIS developer agreement. This is primarily because the documentation > >focuses strongly on hardware design and

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA

2005-03-09 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:23:53AM +, David wrote: > One key question - is the device's low-level hardware specification > (needed for writing the driver) available to others who might want to > take up the reigns should you, Nathan, move on. I assume so as a driver > is often an expression

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA

2005-03-07 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:31:41PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > OK, I have this device loaded and capturing video with the sample > app. Now the question(s) I have are specific to this device. Do I > find another place to ask them, since they are not mythtv specific, > or is there enough interest her

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA

2005-03-03 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:05:55PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > I have one of these lovely units hooked to my notebook now. Now, where, > oh where, did the linux drivers go? Plestor shows no linux drivers. For whatever reason, the "Linux SDK" is listed under Windows drivers. Or you can click here

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Plextor PX-TV402U-NA

2005-02-28 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:21:46AM -0700, Justin Gombos wrote: > * Nathan Lutchansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-28 10:45]: > > > Why does the Mac version exclude DivX? It's disturbing to find > > > that Plextor would strip the DivX out of the Mac versio

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Plextor PX-TV402U-NA

2005-02-28 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:04:04PM -0700, Justin Gombos wrote: > Are there linux drivers to support both the audio and video? Yes, both. All the basic features of the hardware are supported. > Why does the Mac version exclude DivX? It's disturbing to find that > Plextor would strip the DivX out

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA

2005-02-27 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:28:57PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > OK, so I'm really interested in this beast. One question, for those of > you who have actually touched it under Linux. Does is also show up as > an audio device, or is a sound card required for it? The audio channels on the TV402U show

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA - linux drivers seem to be available...

2005-02-23 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:03:38AM -0800, Noah Patton wrote: > Hey, I've got my fingers crossed for the PX-TV402U-NA and > MacMini/MythTV combo. :-) Yes, I realize that the MythTV backend is > not ported to MacOSX, and that it "won't be anytime soon", but given > the extremely high level of int

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA - linux drivers seem to be available...

2005-02-22 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:42:56PM -0500, Byron Poland wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:37:39 -0500, Byron Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One other question. Will the hardware support hardware mpeg4/mpeg2 > > > encoding from sources other than the external inputs? I.e. could I use it > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA - linux drivers seem to be available...

2005-02-22 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:56:15AM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:18:35AM -0500, Dale E. Martin wrote: > > How about convincing the "powers that be" to donate one to Isaac? (or > > another key developer if Isaac isn't interested.) I would think that > > MythTV support wo

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA - linux drivers seem to be available...

2005-02-21 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:01:39PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: > On Monday 21 February 2005 05:57 pm, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:47:45PM -0600, Josh Burks wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:30:30 -0500, Dale E. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA - linux drivers seem to be available...

2005-02-21 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:58:49PM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:57:58PM -0500, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:47:45PM -0600, Josh Burks wrote: > > > * Only the MJPEG and MPEG4 compressed formats are currently supported. &g

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U-NA - linux drivers seem to be available...

2005-02-21 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:47:45PM -0600, Josh Burks wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:30:30 -0500, Dale E. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would appear that you can download a Linux SDK for this guy here: > > http://www.plextor.com/english/support/LinuxSDK.htm > > That's great that there's