lament about freebsd sacrifices

[Joshua Lokken]

* freebsduser at comcast.net <freebsduser at comcast.net> [2004-04-15 21:41]:
> My only regret was that I didn't listen to my inner voice that said -- Don't get an ATI All In Wonder Pro for watching TV. Get a Hauppauge TVIVO instead, or get a standard sort of sound card for sound.


I'm watching TV just fine with an ATI AIW Rage 128 Pro, FreeBSD
4-stable, and XFree86-4.3.x.  Granted, I'm not capturing, but to view
TV I installed the 'stuff' from http://gatos.sourceforge.net and
xawtv.  Full screen, all of the expected functions (except capture)
work well.  Try it ;)

 
> I didn't do the research. But there's enough hardware and such to make one happy if they do the research.  But this is being pointed out to by other posters.
> 

Granted, the Hauppage cards are better supported, but you might as
well use what you've got.


-- 
Joshua

There are some things worth dying for.
		-- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7