[mythtv-users] ATI All-in-Wonder

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> On Friday 20 February 2004 06:55 am, Tony Maro wrote:
> > Phill Wiggin wrote:
> > > Okay, I'm having a tough time with this. All the searches I do
> > > return results that have to do with the new All-in-Wonders.  I'm
> > > trying to find out if Linux/mythtv will use an old-assed ATI AIW
> > > 4Meg PCI card.  I'm going to use it as a secondary tuner, with a
> > > Leadteck 2000Deluxe as primary.
> >
> > The MythTV system requirements located at :
> >
> > http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInfo
> >
> > specifically state it will NOT work with AIW cards.
> On Friday 20 February 2004 10:13, Stelios Valavanis wrote:
> but that conflicts with what the gatos site gatos.sourceforge.net
> says. i have an AIW using the gatos km modules (and ati.2) and i can
> tune in with xawtv but so far have not gotten mythtv to recognize the
> inputs available on the card (or so i feel is my problem).


MythTV != xawtv

IIUC, the card works with xawtv because it just overlays the video from 
the card directly to the display.  For MythTV to work, it needs to be 
able to capture the video (and audio) stream, which can't be done with 
any of the available drivers.

-JAC