Plextor ConvertX PX-M402U

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Plextor ConvertX PX-M402U USB 2.0 Real-Time Digital Video Converter. Converts to DivX®, MPEG-4, MPEG-1 and 2.

  • Real-time hardware and MPEG-1/2/4 digital video converter
  • Fast digital video conversion and lower CPU usage with hardware encoder
  • Easy-to-use personal or VCD video creation software
  • Official DivX Certified product
  • Save hard disk space with DivX and MPEG-4

The ConvertX PX-M402U is an external USB 2.0 capture device that can encode external analog inputs to MPEG2/DivX in realtime. It has a full Linux SDK which has an open license. While the firmware is included with the SDK, this firmware does not have an open license.

There is a similar model, the Plextor ConvertX PVR PX-TV402U, that includes a tv tuner.

Review

Not at this time.

Using with MythTV

driver and system recognition

The device was recognized in Mythubuntu immediately upon connection. The output of lsusb shows the device as: 

Plextor Corp. ConvertX M402U A/V Capture

testing video input

Any video player shows video from a connected source by simply opening the file 

/dev/video0

If your device is on video0, it may be on video1 or another if you have other capture devices.

testing audio input

Adding to MythTV back-end configuration

Related

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