ATI/AMD
ATI Technologies was a designer and supplier of many video graphics and multimedia products. In October 2006, ATI became a subsidiary of AMD, and continues to operate as the parent company's graphics and multimedia divison.
Notable ICs
Digital Demodulators
- Nxt2000, Nxt2002, Nxt2004 (ATSC)
- Nxt6000 (DVB-T)
- Theater 300 family (311, 312, 314, 316) (ATSC)
ATI aquired NxtWave Communications, a designer of DSP semiconductors geared for application within in digital TV terrestrial and cable receivers, in June 2002.[1] In August 2008, AMD sold their DTV business line to Broadcom, resulting in the transfer of ownership of assets such as the Xilleon, NXT and Theater 300 IC product families. [2].
Decoders
- Rage Theater
- Rage Theater 200, Theater 200 (likely the same as the prior IC, but with the "Rage" dropped from the name, though its possible that its a newer slightly tweaked variant)
- Theater 550 Pro
- Theater 650 Pro
- Theater 600 Pro
Analog Devices
| Model | Standard | Interface | Supported | Comments |
|---|
Supported devices
Not yet supported devices
ATI Graphic cards with TV Tuners and/or Capture facilities
Most ATI graphic cards with TV tuners are supported by drivers from the GATOS project -- see a list of supported cards and check the announcements forum.
The Gatos development effort is in the process of moving to X.org. Patches are available for tv-out; see the development forum.
If you want to be able to receive television with your ATI card, you may be able to do that simply by installing X.org 7.0. What follows are some details of an unusually poorly documented project; further clarifications are appreciated.
Support for TV reception is implemented in three ways:
- a Radeon TV-input driver
- merged into X.org 7.0, now released
- supports Rage Theatre and Rage Theatre 200 cards
- a Mach64 v4l Linux kernel module
- based on km and bttv
- integrates ATI Mach64 cards with the v4l framework
- supports both v4l and v4l2
- under relatively active development
- vbi currently hardcoded for NTSC (closed captioning)
- works with AMD64 Linux distributions
- now available through the gatos cvs on sourceforge, cf. gatos v4l project page
- km -- a Linux kernel module
Digital Devices
| Model | Standard | Interface | Supported | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HDTV Wonder | ATSC | PCI | Yes | Comes with a antennae |
| TV Wonder 650 PCI | ATSC | PCI | No | |
| TV Wonder 650 Combo PCI Express | ATSC | PCIe | No | |
| TV Wonder HD 600 USB | ATSC | USB | Yes | |
| TV Wonder 600 PCI Express | ATSC | PCIe | No | |
| TV Wonder 600 PCI | ATSC | PCI | No | |
| older All-In-Wonder graphics cards | DVB-T | AGP or PCIe | No | Some of the later All-In-Wonder graphics cards which featured DVB-T receivers |
| All-in-Wonder HD | ATSC | PCIe | No | graphics and tuner combo card; hence, "all-in" |
| TV Wonder Digital Cable | ATSC | USB | LOL, yeah right | OCUR (Open Cable Unidirectional Receiver) devices |
Also See
Some ATI/AMD Related Threads:
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/vfl/msg28950.html (ATI Theatre 550 Pro)
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/vfl/msg29351.html (Mandriva & ATI TV Wonder VE)
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/vfl/msg28849.html (stripes in overlay mode)
- http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/13228-ati-tv-wonder-usb-2-0.html (ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0)
- http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/12507-ati-tv-wonder-pro.html (ATI TV Wonder Pro)
- ATI All in wonder radeon
- ATI TV Wonder/Ve does not work in FC5
External Links
- http://ati.amd.com/products/multimedia.html ATI Technologies multimedia products webpage.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies