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look in the mythtv developer archives (since the myth user list is
brand new) for questions like this. The short answer: Currently AIW
cards can work as capture or output but not both at once with mythtv.
This is due to a driver limitation. So you will need separate devices.
Good luck


cedar


On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 06:10 AM, Drew Lenze wrote:

> I'm currently in the process of buying parts for a MythTV system.  I'm
> thinking about getting an ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 for both its TV Tuner
> and its TV out graphics.  Does anyone have an opinion about this video
> card?
>  
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My experience thus far is that AIW's are a real pain to deal with, short
of working with some extremely experimental kernel drivers (which don't
quite work themselves).

Better off getting a WinTV card (or something else that's BTTV based)

Cheers,
Aaron

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 06:10, Drew Lenze wrote:
> I'm currently in the process of buying parts for a MythTV system. I'm thinking about getting an ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 for both its TV Tuner and its TV out graphics. Does anyone have an opinion about this video card?
>
> Drew
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You can't use the AIW to both display and do video capture under Linux.

> I'm currently in the process of buying parts for a MythTV system. I'm
> thinking about getting an ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 for both its TV Tuner
> and its TV out graphics. Does anyone have an opinion about this video
> card?

In addition to not being able to capture and display at the same time
under Linux, and thereby requiring a second capture card. It also
requires the experimental gatos Xserver for the XV support which is a pain
in the a** to install.

> I'm currently in the process of buying parts for a MythTV system. I'm
> thinking about getting an ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 for both its TV Tuner
> and its TV out graphics. Does anyone have an opinion about this video
> card?

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:10, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
> I have the exact same card, I personally use a seperate hapaugge wintv
> turner card. Primarily because they are cheap and I find the tv out on
> the ati card to be pretty good.
I have the exact same setup, radeon and wintv capture, but I can't get
the tvout to work on the radeon. I get X to output to the framebuffer,
but then myth won't find the Xv support so it dies. The atitvout tool
on gatos won't switch the displays, but it does see the card. Any tips?

Anyways, remote rocks!

Matt

Someone released a contrib to gatos.sourceforge.net that will allow you
to switch between tv-out and monitor out while using the standard X
server with the gatos drivers for the ATI Radeon.

I think that's what you're looking for.

Cheers,
Aaron

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 08:20, Matthew Brichacek wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:10, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
> > I have the exact same card, I personally use a seperate hapaugge wintv
> > turner card. Primarily because they are cheap and I find the tv out on
> > the ati card to be pretty good.
> I have the exact same setup, radeon and wintv capture, but I can't get
> the tvout to work on the radeon. I get X to output to the framebuffer,
> but then myth won't find the Xv support so it dies. The atitvout tool
> on gatos won't switch the displays, but it does see the card. Any tips?
>
> Anyways, remote rocks!
>
> Matt
>
>
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the atitvout tool doesn't seem to work right with this card. I can get
the tool to see the card, but it won't let me switch between CRT and TV.
On my laptop with a Rage PM Mobility it works great though.

Matt

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:26, Aaron Stewart wrote:
> Someone released a contrib to gatos.sourceforge.net that will allow you
> to switch between tv-out and monitor out while using the standard X
> server with the gatos drivers for the ATI Radeon.
>
> I think that's what you're looking for.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 08:20, Matthew Brichacek wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:10, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
> > > I have the exact same card, I personally use a seperate hapaugge wintv
> > > turner card. Primarily because they are cheap and I find the tv out on
> > > the ati card to be pretty good.
> > I have the exact same setup, radeon and wintv capture, but I can't get
> > the tvout to work on the radeon. I get X to output to the framebuffer,
> > but then myth won't find the Xv support so it dies. The atitvout tool
> > on gatos won't switch the displays, but it does see the card. Any tips?
> >
> > Anyways, remote rocks!
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
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