Problems with ATI pro 550 (1 Viewer)

[knutinh]

Am I missing somthing here?

I have got an ATI pro 550 based tv card (saphire theatrix). I bought it because several tests claimed that it had the best analog tv quality, and it really have a hw MPEG2 encoder chip onboard.

I could know that ATI was so bad when it comes to driver/software support, nor that they dont know what a changelog is =)

-k

 

[infinite.loop]

and it really have a hw MPEG2 encoder chip onboard.

corect -> http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/ati/550pro/

didnt knew that ATI offers hw-encoding
but the drivers can be a bit tricky (same with the nvidia solutions)

to get it working again ::read::

 

[mPod]

Renamed thread topic to something more descriptive and moved it to Hardware Support. Also cleared thread and removed off topic posts.

 

[mikesusangray]

Hi,

you may also consider to spend money on a real TV card.

I think the main reason why you did not get answers has simply its reason in the not so wide used card (for watching TV). The problem is, that the support of MP might break again with the next release of new drivers. Hopefully you can find someone with the same card. But that is only possible with an appropriate topic like "ATi AIW 550 pro not working" in the support section.

Gee whiz!

I thought the ATI Theater Pro 550 was one of the best cards on the market! It does hardware MPEG2 conversion and some other handy stuff. In SageTV it looks great.

Or is there some other card that is also called an ATI 550 Pro? Someone else mentioned an AIW, which my card isn't. (I have a Radeon 9500 softmoden to 9700).

Peace,

Mike

 

[FlipGer]

Hiho,

I thought the ATI Theater Pro 550 was one of the best cards on the market! It does hardware MPEG2 conversion and some other handy stuff. In SageTV it looks great.

Sorry my fault.

I must confess, that I did not know that this is a normal TV card. I only knew ATi AIW series (GrKa + TV). But research showed me, that it is a TV card.

But its no common card, at least here in germany. I could not find one shop offering it. So you may excuse my comment. Germany (Europe?) is Hauppauge land.

Flip.

 

[SciDoctor]

The problem with the ATI tuner cards of late is that many OEM's sell badge engineered vesions of the ATI reference model and they all have slightly different ASIC'swhich makes the 'devid' different in some cases leading to the MP graphs not being a perfect match for every card resulting in the graph build failure .

How you can help is downloading 'graphedit' and inspecting the details of the filter 'ATI AVStream Analog Capture' for your cards specifc 'devid' 'filter moniker' which can then be added to the graph construct to give you (hopefully) a workable graph.

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/Add_TVCard_to_natively_supported_list

 

[mikesusangray]

Hiho,

Sorry my fault.

I must confess, that I did not know that this is a normal TV card. I only knew ATi AIW series (GrKa + TV). But research showed me, that it is a TV card.

But its no common card, at least here in germany. I could not find one shop offering it. So you may excuse my comment. Germany (Europe?) is Hauppauge land.

Quite true. I bought mine here in Zürich, but I had to look hard and I don't think they ever really took off.

Mike

 

[mikesusangray]

The problem with the ATI tuner cards of late is that many OEM's sell badge engineered vesions of the ATI reference model and they all have slightly different ASIC'swhich makes the 'devid' different in some cases leading to the MP graphs not being a perfect match for every card resulting in the graph build failure .

How you can help is downloading 'graphedit' and inspecting the details of the filter 'ATI AVStream Analog Capture' for your cards specifc 'devid' which can then be added to the graph construct to give you (hopefully) a workable graph.

Hey, thanks!

Let's see. First, I have an original ATI card, bought retail.

I haven't used graphedit before, but I'm working on it.

Here's what I found under ATI AVStream Analog Capture Properties:

@devicenp:\\?\pci#ven_1002&dev_4d52&subsys_a3451002&rev_00#3&61aaa01&0&58#
{65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196}\{bc187864-4183-4dc5-9fe0-679a7a039975}

Under Board Properties:

Board Number: 1 Master Device
SubSystem ID: 0xa345

Is this the right info? And if so, is there something I can do with it?

Best,

Mike

 

[SciDoctor]

The graph that matches your devid is the one below from the CaptureCardDefinitions.xml.


You will need to change the 'commercialname' to match your card and also load the four filters into graphedit and check the pin number connections are a match to the filter graph below when you 'render' the filters in graphedit.

<capturecard commercialname="Sapphire Theatrix 550 Pro" capturename="ATI AVStream Analog Capture" devid="ven_1002&amp;dev_4d52&amp;subsys_a3451002&amp;rev_00">
<capabilities tv="true" radio="true" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="false"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="mux" video="" audio="" mpeg2="0"/>
<filters>
<filter cat="tvtuner" name="ATI AVStream Analog Tuner" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="tvaudio" name="ATI AVStream Analog TV Audio" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="crossbar" name="ATI AVStream Analog Xbar" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="capture" name="ATI AVStream Analog Capture" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="mux" name="ATI AVStream MPEG2 Multiplexer" checkdevice="true"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="%tvtuner%"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="tvaudio" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvaudio" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="%audiotuner%"/>
<connection sourcefilter="crossbar" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="crossbar" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="1"/>
<connection sourcefilter="capture" sourcepin="3" sinkfilter="mux" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="capture" sourcepin="4" sinkfilter="mux" sinkpin="1"/>
</connections>
</tv>
</capturecard>

 

[Johnny-D]

I've got a Sapphire Theatrix 550 Pro and it works like a charm. I do remember getting the error you mention but it only happened a couple of times and then it went away when I reinstalled both my video card (Radeon 8500) and tuner drivers.

The drivers I'm using are these:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=294 (6-7_xp_t550_wdm_34826.exe)

To get old drivers on the ATI site, use the menu frame down the left. Took me ages to figure it out, but the previous drivers are right there along with the current ones- but you have to click the '+' sign. (If you linked to the page and don't see the list on the left, go through the main ATI homepage)

P.S. Infinityloop, as you've realised a mistake, would an edit of your original post be in order to prevent mis-information? Maybe it's just me, but I find the only thing that outweighs the vast amount of information on the internet is the amount of mis-information you have to wade through before you get to it...