I've had the same problem, and got my answer from the gatos mailing lists. The AIW cards use drivers from the gatos site. gatos.sourceforge.net The problem with these cards is the drivers are not v4l compatible. They display tv using xvideoextensions and do not export the video to the linux kernel for use by mplayer, etc.
Xawtv and avview use the AIW cards by displaying the TV on the screen, using the xvideoextension. It's a direct display of TV on the AIW card itself, the video never leaves the card. Mplayer requires the video to be exported through the v4l interface, to system memory, for redisplay. So in order to get the AIW cards to display TV in freevo, a plugin will be required to use either xawtv or aaview as the application. There is a driver for AIW cards, called km, for exporting the video through v4l for recording, but the interface is not fully v4l compliant, so it doens't work with mplayer or xine. I don't have all the specifics as to why km fails to work properly with v4l. Regards, Jim Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I had one of the old mach2 style AIW cards and I never got it to work right. :( The video out and everything worked fine, it was just like there was something odd about the tv part of the card. I ended up getting a bt848 card from a friend for $5 and that works fine. You might consider just adding an exclusive tv card... > > Seth > > .------[ John Welch wrote (Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:09:03PM -0500) ]------ > | > | I apologize if this ends up being a duplicate message. I tried posting > | before subscribing to the mailing list, and my message appears to have > | gone to no-man's land. > | > | Anyway, has anyone been able to get Freevo working for watching TV with > | an ATI AIW Radeon 7500 or similar card? > | > | I can watch TV with avview or xawtv, but can't get it working with > | mplayer or xine; which are obviously the apps used by Freevo. I've > | found similar questions posed on the list, but haven't really seen any > | answers. > | > | Any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > | > | Thanks. > | > | > | > | ------------------------------------------------------- > | This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > | Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > | help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > | YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > | _______________________________________________ > | Freevo-users mailing list > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > | > `------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
