On Tuesday 12 April 2005 15:57, Stan Glasoe wrote:
1. OK to ask here _IF_ you are using SUSE for this.!.! :) 9.2 all over the place here :)
2. There is TV support and more for the AIW _if_ you aren't too bleeding edge on your Xorg/XFree86 programs. http://gatos.sourceforge.org is the place for AIW drivers. They are at XFree86 4.3.0 and X.org 6.7.0 levels. SUSE 9.2 started at X.org 6.8.1 so that eliminated stable release support. I have not tried compiling the latest & greatest CVS from gatos so I can't say what is supported there.
..and the only way to have it tested is to get an AIW :)
My experience says go the dual card route. Decent main video card and from what I am learning a Hauppage PVR 250 or better.
The main problem with ATI's AIW cards is ATI. They have licensed other software for the multimedia capabilities of these cards under MS Windows. Apparently these licenses don't allow for Linux support too.
Yes, that's first thing that came to mind... and I just might end up with this sort of solution... I guess I'll have to wait and see (june is the timeframe for the big upgrade) that's a pitty. support for such integrated hardware solution would be great. I've been playing with mythTV the other day and it's quite nice. I was talking to some of the gatos people a few years back and they said there are a bunch of NDAs which they have agreed to in order to get the info. Also, at the time they were about 1 year behind with the supported/tested HDD. I don't think it changed too much.
There was a recent article on Slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/07/1652233&tid=129 on a decent Home Theatre PC Guide at http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html. Has some good insight. Yes, I've seen that article.. but I'm more for a shuttle xpc than yet another large box.. and that's going to have an extra pcix/agp and a pci at best.
Thanks a lot, Laur