ATI Fury 128Pro Ultra (not AIW but includes Theater chip) + Hauppauge WinTV ¿May it work?greenspun.com : LUSENET : Video CD : One Thread |
I recently bought an Ati Rage Fury 128 Pro Ultra (pant, pant). The card doesn´t feature any video-in connector, (it has two video-out ones (s-VHS & RCA)) BUT it features the ATI Theater chip which, as far as I know, is intended for MPEG-1/MPEG-2 encoding. So here goes the question: is there any way to capture video with said card using my Hauppauge WinTV PCI card for input purposes, thus solving the nuance of video inputs on the ATI card? (If it isn´t, please someone tell me what on earth ATI put the Theater chip for...)Thanks in advance!
AvE
-- AvE O. Fernandez (tanamashu@nettaxi.com), March 20, 2002
If no one else knows the answer, try posting to the SVCD forum at http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/70438. It's very ATI heavy and you could get some help there. I doubt what you are proposing will work at all. ATI might have put the Theatre chip on it simply to support playing DVDs and VCDs, but that's a guess. If it has any use for PC games, it might be there for that too. Maybe it's to support hooking up a TV and sending the PC monitor image out to a TV. Without any video input connectors, you won't be able to record anything. ATI takes their video recording customers for granted and all they really seem to care about is people who use their cards for video games, so I would guess that the chip has some kind of video game use or it can be used to display DVDs to a TV.
-- Jason (Jason.Shumate@equant.com), March 20, 2002.
Many thanks for bothering to answer, Jason. Following your advice, I´ve posted the question in the other forum. I think you´re right about the Theater chip being there for video-out purposes only. Perhaps with a dedicated program it would be feasible to enable it to capture, anyway... Who knows?Greetings,
AvE
-- AvE O. Fernandez (tanamashu@nettaxi.com), March 20, 2002.
Just my 2 cents. There just might be a way of enabling the video-in function of said chip with the appropriate drivers, patches, programs, etc. But you're still stuck with a physical problem: even with a diagram, you will have to find the S-video and composite-in pins of said chip and route and install connectors for the same. If you're not electronically inclined and so on, you may have to have someone elze do it for you, which may or may not in the end cost more that getting a wretched ATI duly ready for video capture, input connectors and all.
-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), March 24, 2002.