Hi - I worked with a chap in the US (RichardTV) with an AIW 9800 Pro card in an attempt to get it working with the MPEG-2 TV engine since the AIW engine got broken from the last TV Engine update.
Well the good news is - we managed to get it going.
Now there are a few quirks to this...
1. You have to use VMR9 Renderless as Overlay and AIW's don't work well (AIW issue)
2. You have to have Timeshifting always on - otherwise you wont be able to see TV whilst recording and when you do record sometimes it may hang the HTPC.
3. Catalyst 5.3 introduced the use of digital audio, which causes a delay when changing channels or performing other functions. ATI users probably know this, but just to make clear it's not a MediaPortal issue.
Note: This is just a workaround until hopefully someone can look into the AIW code again. There are no promises and no support
Still reading? - still interested?
OK what you need is the latest MP 0.1.2.0 release.
Now the issues with the AIW cards is that they don't have a true moniker for the capture filter as it's part of a display card which is where the PCI bus interacts so this may well work for other AIW 9x00 cards but I suspect not for the older AIW cards since they have variations.
If your card does not work - look at this thread here...
http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5054
...and post the screenshots / filter moniker in this thread or email them to me.
DMAN
Well the good news is - we managed to get it going.
Now there are a few quirks to this...
1. You have to use VMR9 Renderless as Overlay and AIW's don't work well (AIW issue)
2. You have to have Timeshifting always on - otherwise you wont be able to see TV whilst recording and when you do record sometimes it may hang the HTPC.
3. Catalyst 5.3 introduced the use of digital audio, which causes a delay when changing channels or performing other functions. ATI users probably know this, but just to make clear it's not a MediaPortal issue.
Note: This is just a workaround until hopefully someone can look into the AIW code again. There are no promises and no support
Still reading? - still interested?
OK what you need is the latest MP 0.1.2.0 release.
Now the issues with the AIW cards is that they don't have a true moniker for the capture filter as it's part of a display card which is where the PCI bus interacts so this may well work for other AIW 9x00 cards but I suspect not for the older AIW cards since they have variations.
If your card does not work - look at this thread here...
http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5054
...and post the screenshots / filter moniker in this thread or email them to me.
DMAN