ATI AIW x800 an Sage TV

huh · #1 07-19-2005, 10:53 PM

After installing the Sage Software, I find the composite and svideo components in the initial setup, but not the TV tuner. Is there something I am missing? The TV runs fine off the default ATI software.

Kanati · #2 07-19-2005, 11:07 PM

Think it's a software only card... Very very few ATI cards will work in a PVR solution and I'm almost certain none of the all in wonders. Check the system requirements (too lazy to dig up a link to it right now).

huh · #3 07-19-2005, 11:23 PM

The card works with Windows MCE 2005 which means it must be not a software based encoder I believe.

JUC · #4 07-20-2005, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by huh

The card works with Windows MCE 2005 which means it must be not a software based encoder I believe.

No. MCE does have limited support for software tuners i believe. Last I checked, the AIW cards are all software encoder's and will not work with Sage. Some people have been able to use them to view live TV but that is not confirmed. sorry
JUC

Kanati · #5 07-20-2005, 08:32 AM

I think what is really needed for these software based cards is a little "thunk" layer to fool sage into thinking it's a hardware card, emulating that function. Then we wouldn't be inundated with these questions daily because it would just work.

Then again, sage could add support for the ATI cards natively... wouldn't THAT be nice?

nielm · #6 07-20-2005, 09:03 AM

No. Software encoding cards are the invention of the devil (for PVR apps)...

If you want to write a network encoder, or use Anders' universal network encoder with Graphedit to get a AIW recording to mpeg2 graph to work, then good luck to you

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