Revision as of 02:31, 20 July 2006

ATI TV-WONDER

AKA: is the hardware known by other names?

Vendors Website: http://www.ati.com/products/tvwonder/index.html

Support Status: MythTV works with this card. However the card does not have a hardware encoder, so watching/recording TV will be CPU intensive.

Driver: bttv driver http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/drivers.html

Description

Single-tuner PCI card with no hardware encoder.

ATI TV-Wonder Pro comes with a nice remote that works using RF to a USB base that has drivers in the current Linux Kernel.

Issues and Problems

When you first install this card the colour & contrast is way off. The colour, hue & contrast options can be edited through MythWeb or in the channel table of mythconverg database in MySQL.

Starting values for contrast and colour are 25000, but you will need to do a lot of tweaking. Note, this method affects all cards in your mythbacked server.

Associated Software

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Installation guides

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FAQs

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User Experiences

If you have this card, speak up! This is a good place to note your experiences - ease of install, what you like, what's not to like, etc.

This information regards the TV-Wonder-Pro card, which does not seem to use the bttv driver. Using Dapper, in order to get this card to work, I had to do the following:

cd /etc/modprobe.d"

echo "options cx88xx card=4 tuner=44" > cx88xx

modprobe -r cx8800

modprobe cx8800

This should get both audio and video working.

The video is still a bit pale. When I figure out how to repair this, I'll post it here. -atrus123

Because of colour issues and the availability of other cards in this price range I cannot recommend this card. - Matt Clare