[mythtv-users] MSI NVidia Personal Cinema FX5200

Sim simon.hampton at freebel.net
Tue Mar 22 21:15:50 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 22 Mar 2005 07:31, Craig Thomas wrote:
> I have recently purchased a MSI NVidia Personal Cinema FX5200-VT128 card,
> and I am hoping to use it with MythTV.  I have seen a couple posts about
> the card, but I am slightly confused.  The one post lists drivers for the
> card using the saa7134 chipset drivers
> (http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/drivers.html).  Are these the drivers for
> both the card and the capture?  I am going through the RedHat FC3 HOWTO at
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/, and I follow it fine until I get to the "Get
> and Install Capture Card Drivers."  All he talks about is bttv and ivtv.
>  What do I need to do at this step?  Is my card based on one of those, or
> is the saa7134 driver the capture driver.  If it is, how do I install it.

Sorry, but you've wasted your money.  For a personal cinema card you would 
need the rivatv project (rivatv.sf.net), but these do not support the new 
personal cinema cards and may not do for some time - you can read more of the 
technical difficulties in the mailing lists and on 
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Feel free to join the line of people that are not happy about nVidia's 
non-support of their TV cards, but they've already got your money....

Sim


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