[geeks] TV/PC Questions

[Frank Van Damme]

On Sunday 26 January 2003 21:08, Chris Byrne wrote:
> The new all in wonders are pretty amazing. They have all the performance
> of the high end 3d accellerators they are based on, plus the tv tuning
> and tv capture capabilities of a dedicated TV card. Hell if you add a
> pci add on tune you can do picture in picture even.

The cool thing seems to be that the tv thing can have direct access to the 
cards video memory. The signal doesn't even go over the AGP bus (as far as 
I don't make stupid mistakes here).

> I don't know if ATI's Linux drivers cover the tv-tuner portion of their
> cards. I know they DON'T provide tuning software, but there are several
> packages out there that can (and do) use the all in wonders.

It's possible that you can use those functions with an opensource driver; 
see the gatos project. http://gatos.sf.net .

> There are also several other commonly available brands of TV only cards.
> Hauppage is the market leader (and is supported under several varieties
> of UNIX)

Correct, I know at least 2 people who use one on their linux box. 

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Frank Van Damme
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