ATI TV Wonder?

[bburd]

Does GB-PVR work with the ATI - TV WONDER USB 2.0 Tuner Card 100-703156? View info on the card at http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?...3468042221.
Thanks.

[Kanati]

I was just getting ready to ask that myself... I am wanting to test gbpvr on my primary desktop machine with one of these before moving it to my HTPC box... I'm experimenting with it right now so if I find out I'll let you know too.

[Kanati]

aint lookin too good......... it's as I feared... gbpvr uses cards with hardware encoding only. So in your case, pick up a hauppage card like the PVR150 or 250... In my case, looks like I gotta do my testing on my sagetv box.

[Ross]

Wow, this is getting confusing! I am about to install my ATI TV Wonder Elite which has some sort of MPEG2 encoder. I posted a few questions about it a week or so ago and all indications for that card was that it should work good as-is. Although someone had reported getting some motion artifacts. I wonder if the more recent Elite is any different than the previous ATI cards.

[reboot]

ATI's naming scheme is so totally messed.
Some cards have partial hardware mpeg-2 encoding, and some do not.
Some will do avi as well as mpg, some will not.
It's my understanding that the "Elite" is a hardware mpeg-2 encoder card, but don't quote me on that.

[Ross]

Ok, I won't quote you. Geez, one day I feel comfortable about installing my ati elite, and the next day I am breaking into a cold sweat again. I'm just hoping to install the card and then install GBPVR and have everything working. The box just says "MPEG - 2 Encoding.

[reboot]

From the http://www.gbpvr main page:

For TV Tuner cards, currently supported are:

Hauppauge PVR250, PVR250MCE, PVR350, PVR USB2 cards
Hauppauge PVR150 and dual-tuner PVR500MCE
ATI Theatre 550 Pro
DVB-T and DVB-S devices with BDA drivers including:
Hauppauge Nova-S
Hauppauge Nova-T
Hauppauge Nova-T USB2
Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i
Twinhan DVB-S
Twinhan DVB-T
Dvico Fusion DVB-T
V-Box DTT-150
Blockgold GDI DVB-T
Lifeview FlyDVB-T
Plextor PX-M402U
Lifeview TV Walker
Generic GO7007SB based capture devices

I don't suppose you read that before purchasing your ati?

[Kanati]

don't rub it in for him reboot.

I would pick up a hauppauge card. EVERYONE supports those.

[Ross]

I didn't know about GBPVR prior to getting the card. But since the ATI TV Wonder Elite uses the Theater 550 Pro Video Processor, I am assuming that it is supported, right? Also, from reading past threads (see quote below) it seems that there shouldn't be any problems. Oh, BTW, I got the Elite (retail about $145.00) FREE from Dell when I complained to them that it should have been included with the Media Center Edition Computer I bought from them. So thats how I ended up with that card. And Kanati is right, reboot, don't rub it in. LOL

Quote:
Originally Posted by sub
I'm not aware of any issue resulting in no sound on the ATI TV Wonder Elite. There was one guy in Hungary who was getting no sound, but updated drivers fixed his problem.

[Ross]

Followup - I just checked the box carefully and it says the ATI TV Wonder Elite has Full Hardware MPEG 2 Compression. So with that, and combined with its Theater 550 Pro Prcessor, I am feeling a little more confident that it will work with GBPVR. I think these Elite cards are built differently than the previoius ATI pvr cards. Any one else have any thing add to help build my confidence before I open the package?