[geeks] TV/PC Questions

[Joacim Melin]

If you are interested in doing OpenGL, buy a card from another vendor. 
ATI has been really sloppy when it comes to OpenGL support lately.

joacim

"Veni, vidi, wifi"

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On Sunday, Jan 26, 2003, at 21:08 Europe/Stockholm, Chris Byrne wrote:

> The new all in wonders are pretty amazing. They have all the 
> performance
> of the high end 3d accellerators they are based on, plus the tv tuning
> and tv capture capabilities of a dedicated TV card. Hell if you add a
> pci add on tune you can do picture in picture even.
>
> I don't know if ATI's Linux drivers cover the tv-tuner portion of their
> cards. I know they DON'T provide tuning software, but there are several
> packages out there that can (and do) use the all in wonders.
>
> There are also several other commonly available brands of TV only 
> cards.
> Hauppage is the market leader (and is supported under several varieties
> of UNIX)
>
> Chris Byrne
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org
>> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Yuri K
>> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:59
>> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: [geeks] TV/PC Questions
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>   I am terribly out of date on Radio & TV things, so this is going to
>>   be a lame one: are there any boards for pC platform that do a fine
>>   job of tuning in, displaying and letting to record in various
>>   formats the TV signal. Also, in light of 2005 mandatory move into
>>   HDTV, will any of this technology work? Any open source projcts that
>>   actually work?
>>
>>   I have noticed an ad for some Radeon card selling at Fry's for ~$160
>>   that allegedly does everything, so may be somebody has experience to
>>   share... merci d'avance.
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>  Yuri
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