Possible to get TV Wonder 650 to work?

[Lucky75]

Hey, does anyone know if it's possible to get at least basic support for the Diamond ATI TVWonder 650 USB under karmic?

lsusb shows:

 Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0438:b003 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

but it doesn't show up in dev/video0 or anything like that, and I don't know of a program which will play it. I don't really have the money to go out and buy another tv tuner, so I really would like to get this one to work, or else I'm going to have to do something stupid like switch to windows :S

Thanks for the help!

Details:

Running Karmic Gnome
Core2Duo
Nvidia 7600 GT gfx card using the nvidia 195 drivers

[Lucky75]

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

[Lucky75]

bump please

[HoboJ]

I'm afraid you're out of luck here. If you scroll down on this page > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_USB_Devices you'll see that your tuner isn't supported. What I've gleaned from a quick check of the linuxtv mailing lists is that the ATI TV Wonder 650 cards (usb and pci) have no linux support nor will they get support.

[Blue Beard]

Checkout http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html

NOTE: The ATI All-in-Wonder cards (which are not the same as the ATI TV Wonder, TV Wonder VE or TV Wonder Pro) will not work as a MythTV capture device because the GATOS http://gatos.sourceforge.net drivers that are available provide only a limited subset of the V4L API. The TV Wonder series of cards are supported by the Bt8x8 Video4Linux driver.

[Lucky75]

So does that mean that there is at least some support for the card? I don't really understand how I go about getting it to work, regardless of if it's with mythtv (although it would be nice).

What would I install to get it to work?

Thanks!

[Lucky75]

Bump Sorry, didn't fully understand your previous response.

[Blue Beard]

Support for any of the 550/650 TV cards under Linux is non-existent as far as I have found. AMD does not seam to be willing to open source the hardware info like they do on Video Cards.

I use my Theater 550 under Windows. Hopefully this situation will be remedied by AMD.

Blue Beard

[Lucky75]

I suppose running a VM of windows wouldn't work, would it?

[bridgman]

There's a lot of third party IP in the TV products, so supporting open source development for TV is a lot harder than on graphics. We also sold off a lot of the TV technology to Broadcom a couple of years ago, which makes things joyously complicated.

Best to assume that we will be continuing to support open source development on graphics but not on TV products. Sorry.