AiW 9800 Pro and MythTV

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Elliot Villiger

I am building a PVR computer and I would like to use MythTV, which is a
linux based "look-alike" version of MS MCE. I have read that the current
linux drivers that come with MythTV are not compatible with the current AiW
series due to a new chipset. Has anyone been successful at getting MythTV
and the AiW 9800 Pro working together.

Thanks,

Elliot
 
Elliot said:
I am building a PVR computer and I would like to use MythTV, which is a
linux based "look-alike" version of MS MCE. I have read that the current
linux drivers that come with MythTV are not compatible with the current
AiW
series due to a new chipset. Has anyone been successful at getting MythTV
and the AiW 9800 Pro working together.
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First, MythTV is not a "look-alike version of MS MCE"--it was around long
before MCE.

Second, what part of "The All-in-Wonder cards will not work with MythTV" did
you not understand?

As of 20 FEB nobody had ever managed to make any variety of All-In-Wonder,
new, old, or in between work with MythTV.

If you don't want to go with a different capture board then you might want
to take a look at MyHTPC, which is conceptually similar to MythTV but runs
on Windows and does support the All-In-Wonder.
 
Elliot Villiger said:
I am building a PVR computer and I would like to use MythTV, which is a
linux based "look-alike" version of MS MCE. I have read that the current
linux drivers that come with MythTV are not compatible with the current AiW
series due to a new chipset. Has anyone been successful at getting MythTV
and the AiW 9800 Pro working together.
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No one can. As it noted on the Web site, ATI needs to open up its driver
(never will happen) or someone needs to be able to hack the drivers
(almost impossible).
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No one can. As it noted on the Web site, ATI needs to open up its driver
(never will happen) or someone needs to be able to hack the drivers
(almost impossible).
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Uh, where is that noted on the MythTV site?
 
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Uh, where is that noted on the MythTV site?
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"A TV card. Can't really watch TV without one, right? Pretty much
anything that works with V4L should be fine. ATI All-In-Wonder cards
WILL NOT work due to driver issues."

http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInfo
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"Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw
from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting
on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy
of treetops." --Maya Angelou (b. 1928) American writer and entertainer
/\___/\
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"A TV card. Can't really watch TV without one, right? Pretty much
anything that works with V4L should be fine. ATI All-In-Wonder cards
WILL NOT work due to driver issues."

http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInfo
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I do not see anything there about "ATI needs to open up its driver (never
will happen) or someone needs to be able to hack the drivers (almost
impossible)." All it says is that there are "driver issues". If you
investigate you will find that the issues are with the GATOS driver, which
is an open-source product independently developed, and the issue is not
that it does not operate the board properly but that that it was not
written to work with the Video4Linux API and work on adding that support
has been very slow, with features needed by MythTV that have not yet been
implemented.
 
I am building a PVR computer and I would like to use MythTV, which is
I do not see anything there about "ATI needs to open up its driver (never
will happen) or someone needs to be able to hack the drivers (almost
impossible)." All it says is that there are "driver issues". If you
investigate you will find that the issues are with the GATOS driver, which
is an open-source product independently developed, and the issue is not
that it does not operate the board properly but that that it was not
written to work with the Video4Linux API and work on adding that support
has been very slow, with features needed by MythTV that have not yet been
implemented.
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No, that was my rants. If the drivers were opened to the public, then we
wouldn't have to wait so long. I do not want to GATOS drivers or else
games will be too slow. :)
--
"Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw
from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting
on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy
of treetops." --Maya Angelou (b. 1928) American writer and entertainer
/\___/\
/ /\ /\ \ Phillip Pi (Ant) @ The Ant Farm: http://antfarm.ma.cx
| |o o| | E-mail: (e-mail address removed) or (e-mail address removed)
\ _ / Remove ANT if replying by e-mail from a newsgroup/mailing
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