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Today's Topics:

1. Re: WinTV HVR-1100 (was 2 TV cards - can they work
together!?) (Peter Hemmings)
2. Re: WinTV HVR-1100 (was 2 TV cards - can they work
together!?) (Amias Channer)
3. Re: WinTV HVR-1100 (was 2 TV cards - can they work
together!?) (David Smith)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:43:48 +0100
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] WinTV HVR-1100 (was 2 TV cards - can they work
together!?)
Message-ID: <53CE2444.3040405@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

FYI (a picture is worth a thousand words!) below is a picture of pci
card with connector:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45909169/DSCF1896a.JPG

(my original post with attachment did not get through Dave's security!)


On 16/07/14 11:10, Alex Butcher wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, Amias Channer wrote:
>
>> > Yup, but Peter's card is a hybrid Analogue/DVB-T model.
>>
>> all the pci analog tv cards i've ever seen and owned used that direct
>> memory
>> write method.
>>
>> early hauppage cards mostly.
>
> Yup, same here. I don't think I've even seen a card that outputs via a
> header. But my first VGA card (maybe even my second) - a Diamond
> Stealth 64
> with an S3 Vision864 chipset - had a "VESA Advanced Feature Connector"
> header for non-PCI direct transfers. I figured this might have been one of
> the rare matching partners that /could/ use the VESA AFC, even if PCI
> BM DMA was the normal and recommended approach. Would be odd for a tuner
> card so new, I'll grant you, but stranger things have happened in commodity
> hardware...
>
> Googling it up, I see that the VESA AFC header was 2x13 pins, so I'll go
> with my original guess that it's some kind of factory
> programming/diagnostic
> header on Peter's card.
>
> It looks as though the main uses of the VESA AFC were Creative's 3DO
> Blaster, MPEG decoder cards, TV tuner/video capture cards and first gen 3D
> accelerators.
>
>> Cheers
>> Amias
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex
>
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Regards
--
Peter H



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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:06:21 +0100
From: Amias Channer <me@amias.net>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] WinTV HVR-1100 (was 2 TV cards - can they work
together!?)
Message-ID:
<CAMgU7XXafHZT1HMO21B5okQ3sv=qXtOwuWFYQ2JUW+UOgEiseA@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

could it be an extra power connector of some sort ?


On 22 July 2014 09:43, Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> FYI (a picture is worth a thousand words!) below is a picture of pci card
> with connector:
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45909169/DSCF1896a.JPG
>
> (my original post with attachment did not get through Dave's security!)
>
>
>
> On 16/07/14 11:10, Alex Butcher wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, Amias Channer wrote:
>>
>> > Yup, but Peter's card is a hybrid Analogue/DVB-T model.
>>>
>>> all the pci analog tv cards i've ever seen and owned used that direct
>>> memory
>>> write method.
>>>
>>> early hauppage cards mostly.
>>>
>>
>> Yup, same here. I don't think I've even seen a card that outputs via a
>> header. But my first VGA card (maybe even my second) - a Diamond
>> Stealth 64
>> with an S3 Vision864 chipset - had a "VESA Advanced Feature Connector"
>> header for non-PCI direct transfers. I figured this might have been one
>> of
>> the rare matching partners that /could/ use the VESA AFC, even if PCI
>> BM DMA was the normal and recommended approach. Would be odd for a tuner
>> card so new, I'll grant you, but stranger things have happened in
>> commodity
>> hardware...
>>
>> Googling it up, I see that the VESA AFC header was 2x13 pins, so I'll go
>> with my original guess that it's some kind of factory
>> programming/diagnostic
>> header on Peter's card.
>>
>> It looks as though the main uses of the VESA AFC were Creative's 3DO
>> Blaster, MPEG decoder cards, TV tuner/video capture cards and first gen 3D
>> accelerators.
>>
>> Cheers
>>> Amias
>>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bristol mailing list
>> Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bristol
>>
>
> Regards
> --
> Peter H
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:15:52 +0000
From: David Smith <David.Smith@imgtec.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] WinTV HVR-1100 (was 2 TV cards - can they work
together!?)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bristol-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:bristol-
> bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Peter Hemmings
> FYI (a picture is worth a thousand words!) below is a picture of pci card with
> connector:
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45909169/DSCF1896a.JPG

No, that's not the connector for sending the data to the graphics card - it's a standard DIL IDC connector (like the sort that were used on IDE (ATA) disk drives and floppy drives). Your card should be direct-write.



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