ATI TV Wonder circa 1999

[BetterCallSaul]

The audio goes through an audio out port on the card which then gets plugged into the audio in on the sound card. Looks like this olde school card won't work with NPVR.

This is an ATI TV Wonder card. That is what the software CD (yes, I still have the CD from 14 years ago) says on it. ATI P/N 1025670310515591 and the card has 109-56700-10 printed on the board. It was used with a 55 lb 19" Hitachi monitor through college so that my blazing fast Pentium 2 350 Mhz Windows 98 system could be both my computer and TV. I also had (still do have) a RealMagic Hollywood decoder card to watch DVDs smoothly since that blazing fast processor could not keep up with the decoding. Cutting edge stuff.

Thank you all for your help with this. Looks like I will be buying either a new tuner card or switching to a more appliance based solution like one of the MediaSonic HomeWorx HW-150PVR devices I have seen online.

[johnsonx42]

The audio goes through an audio out port on the card which then gets plugged into the audio in on the sound card. Looks like this olde school card won't work with NPVR.

Ah, yes, I do remember that's how it worked way back when. GB-PVR possibly could have worked with this card, but not NPVR. It expects both audio and video on the same device. GB-PVR had a config file that detailed the exact inputs and outputs to hook up, so it might have been possible to mix and match. That file was an endless support headache though, so I'm glad NPVR auto-detects most things now.

[sub]

The audio goes through an audio out port on the card which then gets plugged into the audio in on the sound card. Looks like this olde school card won't work with NPVR.

This is an ATI TV Wonder card. That is what the software CD (yes, I still have the CD from 14 years ago) says on it. ATI P/N 1025670310515591 and the card has 109-56700-10 printed on the board. It was used with a 55 lb 19" Hitachi monitor through college so that my blazing fast Pentium 2 350 Mhz Windows 98 system could be both my computer and TV. I also had (still do have) a RealMagic Hollywood decoder card to watch DVDs smoothly since that blazing fast processor could not keep up with the decoding. Cutting edge stuff.

Thank you all for your help with this. Looks like I will be buying either a new tuner card or switching to a more appliance based solution like one of the MediaSonic HomeWorx HW-150PVR devices I have seen online.

Yeah, sorry - that device isn't going to work.

[sub]

Ah, yes, I do remember that's how it worked way back when. GB-PVR possibly could have worked with this card, but not NPVR. It expects both audio and video on the same device. GB-PVR had a config file that detailed the exact inputs and outputs to hook up, so it might have been possible to mix and match. That file was an endless support headache though, so I'm glad NPVR auto-detects most things now.

Nah, it wouldn't have worked with GB-PVR either. It required a hardware encoder.

[johnsonx42]

Nah, it wouldn't have worked with GB-PVR either. It required a hardware encoder.

oh, yeah, except for that part. how quickly we forget.