Hi, I'm new to the list, and wanted to pass this information along, as I'm pretty excited about it. I do not work for plextor. The PXM402U is a usb hardware mpeg1, mpeg2, and mpeg4 encoder. there is also a PTV402U which incorporates an analog tv tuner into the design. anyway over at the divx.com forums there was a lot of interest in s linux driver for these, and plextor responded with an open source driver that will be available this week. Here is a link to the discussion.
http://forums.divx.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=782106&f=996105602&m=295101302&r=316104642#316104642 And a quote of the last two posts following my inquiry on an update are at the bottom of this message. Anyway, looks like a little bit of work by the community is needed to get this driver integrated into existing setups. My goal in posting here is to hopefully spur a little interest in getting this guy incorporated into mythtv, so that it could be used with a directv box, or a digital cable box, also when the TV tuner version's driver is released, you have a complete tuning and hardware encoding option. Posted 14 February 2005 04:06 PM It should be on the Plextor website by 2/16. If you want it earlier, just send me a PM and I can email it to you. Here are some details on the SDK: Open-source Linux SDK. The SDK comes with example code that can be reused in open-source or proprietary applications to help developers get started with the new driver quickly. Version 0.9 of the driver will be available 2/16 from www.plextorcom/downloads with verison 1.0 to follow in the next few weeks. The driver is licensed under the GNU GPL (General Public License) The driver supports the Video for Linux Two (V4L2) specification. The new driver supports the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) specification. The new driver requires the Linux 2.6 kernel. Plextor is planning an update to the SDK in the first quarter of 2005 to add support for TV tuners, hardware based motion detection and recording in the MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and H263 formats. Posts: 317 | Registered: 21 December 2004 Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post lutchann DivX Newbie Posted 14 February 2005 05:03 PM One more note here--the driver isn't supported by any existing Linux application that I'm aware of. While the driver follows the V4L2 API, there is no standard V4L2 pixformat for MPEG4 video streams so we had to define our own. This unfortunately means that the driver is not usable "out of the box" with anything except the example app that comes with it. I don't expect it will take more than a few hours of work, max, for a knowledgeable developer to add support for it to their application, though. It should also help that the example app has a license with terms just shy of public domain, so people are free to plagiarize any or all of it in any application.
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