Plextor PVRs Now Support Linux

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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gee

[ginotech]

wow, now i actually might go buy the necessary equipment and start using my linux box as a pvr

Re:what harware are you guys using for mthtv?

[planetjay]

Hauppauge PVR-250 is what I used on mine.

Redundant

[tube013]

I submitted this to slashdot about 2 weeks ago. Amazing