[mythtv-users] ATI All-in-Wonder

[Phill Wiggin]

Phill Wiggin wrote:

> Henk Poley wrote:
>
>>> Van: Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com>
>>>
>>> AIW hardware works by writing video data directly into display
>>> memory rather than sending it out over the PCI bus. The "km"
>>> driver grabs data from the display while the image is on screen.
>>> This approach is worthless for any application other than the
>>> AVView demo from the GATOS site.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> NB: Mostly responding to Phill Wiggin (or any other ATI AIW user).
>>
>> I dislike to say "Make a patch!", but well you could... _If_ you 
>> don't mind
>> that you can't use LiveTV, and can't use you PC when recording 
>> (you'll see
>> the program that is being recorded). That way it will be much like a 
>> normal
>> VCR. I suspect GATOS devs can help you further.
>>
>> If you setup the non-LiveTV stuff, and the frontend interface 
>> blocking when
>> recording, in a generic way I think people with low CPU hardware 
>> might even
>> like that option.
>>
>>     Henk Poley <><
>>
>>  
>>
> Thanks for the kind suggestion.  But, personally, I really don't care 
> that much about it.

I just re-read that... Sorry, it should have said "I really don't care 
about my AIW card". I wasn't referring to your suggestion! :)

--PW

> I just had the AIW laying around and thought I'd use it if I could.  
> At present I don't particularly have to have a second tuner anyway, 
> I'll pick one up later if my MythTV box works as well as I hope it will.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Phill W.
>
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