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Read this very carefully:

The ATI all in wonder will not work now. It very likely will never work.
The GATOS drivers wont help this. Believe me. It's been tried.

I am not going to go into why. It's been discussed to DEATH. Any simple
search on the Gossamer Threads archive will show it up. So do yourself,
and everyone else on this list a favor, and go look there.

This is probably about as nice a reply as you can expect with regards to
this subject:
Please do not beat that dead horse here.

Thanks,

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun Keenan [mailto:skeenan@jo-momma.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:32 PM
To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] AIW question

Hey all,
I know I'm somewhat reviving a dead horse, but I have to ask this...
I notice that the main page says something about driver problems with
the AIW. I have been able to get xawtv to use my AIW without a problem
- tuner works, composite and svideo work fine as well. Why can't Myth
use the card the same way xawtv does, and work with it?
Also, are the driver problems why an input never shows up, even though
the card recognizes fine and definately has inputs in it?
Thanks!
-Shaun

It's covered quite well in the list archives, the drivers are not capable of
concurrent recording and playback. Without that you are SOL. The problem has
NOTHING to do with mythtv, it has everything to do with the gatos drivers. It
is a known issue and is part of the reason you have to have avview running to
be able to do a recording with the AIW cards. Maybe that will be fixed one
day, however don't hold your breath as there are supposed to be some hardware
issues that affect this...

Xawtv only displays incoming video, it does not do it concurrently with
recording so using that method is of little use to Mythtv.

On 30 Jul 2003 at 12:31, Shaun Keenan wrote:

> Hey all,
> I know I'm somewhat reviving a dead horse, but I have to ask this...
> I notice that the main page says something about driver problems with
> the AIW. I have been able to get xawtv to use my AIW without a problem
> - tuner works, composite and svideo work fine as well. Why can't Myth
> use the card the same way xawtv does, and work with it?
> Also, are the driver problems why an input never shows up, even though
> the card recognizes fine and definately has inputs in it?
> Thanks!


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Does that mean I can setup my spare AIW as a backup "record-only" video source for Myth?

Larry

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:11:45 -0700
"Harondel J. Sibble" <help@pdscc.com> wrote:
> the drivers are not capable of
> concurrent recording and playback.

On Thursday 31 July 2003 01:51 pm, Larry Owen wrote:
> Does that mean I can setup my spare AIW as a backup "record-only" video
> source for Myth?

Nope. The gatos drivers only support a very limited subset of v4l
functionality, and mythtv can't record from them.

Isaac
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net]On Behalf Of Larry Owen
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:52 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] AIW question
>
>
> Does that mean I can setup my spare AIW as a backup "record-only"
> video source for Myth?
>
> Larry

No, but you can set it up as a spare 'watch TV via xawtv' card.

-JAC