[ale] Video card for viewing cable

[Subba Rao]

On  0, hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> Subba Rao writes:
>  > 
>  > One of the spare machines has a ATI All-in-Wonder Pro AGP card. This card
>  > supports Video on WindowXX world. It has CATV, A/V IN and A/V OUT. The chipset
>  > on this card is "3D Rage Pro". Will this card support video on Linux? Initially,
>  > I am looking for TV/Video viewing only on Linux. At a later stage, I may want
>  > video out.
> 
> I used to use an All In Wonder Pro.  It was not the AGP version, but
> otherwise sounds the same.  It did a nice job with tv viewing.  There
> is a program for watching the tv, whose name may or may not be atitv.
> The one tricky part is that you had to tell your X server that you have
> less memory than your card really has.  Of course, this was about a
> year ago.  Who knows what improvements have been made.
> 
> 

Thank you for this info! It looks like it can be done. I found a site that
works only on ATI card for linux and found good information from there. The
site address is http://www.linuxvideo.org and the project that deals with ATI
cards is called GATOS.

Thank you very much once again.
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Subba Rao
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