ATI All In Wonder 8500DV

[stormdragon]

Hi folks,

I've just adopted an "old" ATI All-In-Wonder 8500DV. Has anyone used this card with GB-PVR? I was thinking of throwing it into my current box which has a Radeon 9200 for TV-out and an MSI Theater 550 Pro for recording, and using it as a second tuner card.

Suggestions? Comments?

Thanks!

-SD

[TornadoTJ]

I have some old ATi AiWs, and unfortunately they don't work.
I hope yours does! I don't know anything about that one!

[sub]

There is no built in support for any of the All-In-Wonder cards. They lack the required hardware MPEG encoder.

That said, if you're lucky you might be able to get it work with the software encoder plugin.

[stormdragon]

Yeah... looking into older specs, the 8500DV is the last card ATI put out without a hardware MPEG-2 encoder. Darn.

Oh well, it was free!

I'll give that software encoder a whirl...

Thanks for your replies!

-SD

[jecahill]

I have a 8500DV running with OnAir's USB-HDTV GT and with the native OnAir apps it is outstanding. That said the OA apps leave something to be desired when it comes to EPG - hence my interest in getting the combo to work with GBPVR. Just my .02. Cheers -

[TornadoTJ]

Yea, that's what I feared, no hardware MPEG. Sorry, I'm in the same boat, I have two ATI AiW's, and an NVIDIA that's not hardware too. I thought they were cool before, now I know better!!!