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Plextor PVRs Now Support Linux

Posted by timothy on from the excellent-news dept.

planetjay writes "Plextor PVRs now support Linux with an open source SDK for their ConvertX PVR external USB TV tuner/encoder This is great news for Linux PVR users who want to use an external device with hardware based MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/DivX encoding in their MythTV or Freevo homebuilt PVR. "Plextor is strongly committed to supporting the Open Source Software movement with free development tools that help speed the creation of next-generation Linux-based video software," said Dirk Peters, director of marketing, Plextor."

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  1. Awesome by SealBeater · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What's nice about this to me is that, since it's USB2 (tech specs aside), you
    can take the space that a pci card would have, put a usb2 card in it's place,
    and have multiple tuners, since mythtv has support for multiple tuners, case
    space considerations are no longer such a factor.

    Now, we just have to see if it's any good.

    SealBeater

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  2. What's the easiest? by Kozz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...or is there no easy way to BYOPVR? I mean, I've heard about MythTV and Freevo and all sorts of hardware, etc, and as much as I think Linux can be a great tool, sometimes it's a royal FPITA to get thing configured & compiled right, make everything work. I'm not a kung-fu master sysadmin, just a guy who's done his fair share of ./configure, make && make install.

    If I don't want to fuck around with making sure I've got all the right hardware pieces just perfect, what're my options for buying something pre-built that will work well, no monthly subscription fee, etc?

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  3. Wishful thinking by hashts · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Too bad none of the HDtv cards out there can decrypt signals from Satellite or cable. Of course thats due to the providers forcing you to buy/rent their own PVRs.

    I'd be all over this device if it would work with an HD feed from satellite.

  4. They have donated one of these to the Myth Creator by dcgaber · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They donated one of these boxes to the myth creator, and perhaps even more to other developers. They are smart, they want to get to get widespread support out there for their product, and I will maybe add one of these to my next mythbox.