ATI's Multimedia Center 8.8 - The Home Multimedia Server
by Andrew Ku on December 16, 2003 10:49 AM EST- Posted in
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EazyShare — Client
The MMC LaunchPad will display differently per Radeon based system. All-in-Wonder based systems will differ depending on its configuration as an EazyShare client or server. Pervious MMC suites have been limited to All-in-Wonder users, and All-in-Wonder EazyShare server configurations shouldn't expect any change. Meanwhile, All-in-Wonder EazyShare client configurations will feature a new EazyShare TV application. Non-AIW will only be allowed to be configured as clients and won't have a TV application option because there is no dedicated tuner.
EazyShare TV starts up and needs to be configured as the normal TV application; however, it doesn't need to scan for TV channels, setup audio, or download TV listings for EazyLook. TV-On-Demand still needs to be configured for EazyShare, as that is how ATI streams TV to EazyShare clients.
The EazyShare TV program starts up like the TV window, but in TV-On-Demand mode. This is how EazyShare clients will always display TV. The jog shuttle provides definite benefits to streaming TV, since rewinding and fast-forwarding become much simpler tasks.
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jman037 - Sunday, January 18, 2004 - link
I have an ATI AIW 9700 Pro on the server with Catalyst 3.10 and Multimedia Center 8.8..and none of my clients can find any servers running on my wired 100base-T network.I've totally uninstalled and reinstalled ALL ATI software on all machines several times. I've un-shared and reshared drives. I've tried every different setting I could find. I tried running the client after turning on TV on the server and switching to TV on Demand..(TV on Demand just stutters BTW).
I'm running an AMD barton 2800+ with 1.5GBof DDR ram. Frankly I've spent over 8 hours on this issue and am at my wit's end.
Zoomer - Saturday, December 27, 2003 - link
#4, it should be the same except you would need something else to change channels.I would like to see the AIW component of ati's cards be seperated from the video card. I can't justify paying hundreds more every year or so when I upgrade graphics cards just to have the tuner.
It would be great if it could be split into 2 components. Perhaps with the AIW part as a daughterboard that's connected internally?
belboz - Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - link
Sorry if I missed this in the article, but how does this all work if you use an external tuner like a cable box or satellite tuner?belboz - Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - link
Vanners - Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - link
But does 8.8 solve my audio synch problem when capturing to DivX?vailr - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - link
Any info on the ATI "E-Home Wonder" TV tuner card?Will it be released, either retail or OEM, for sale to end users, without the necessity of also having WinXP MCE? (In case you weren't aware of this card, this PCI card includes a hardware MPG2 encoder, as well as analog TV tuner.
http://www.ati.com/products/ehome/index.html ). Would seem to enable EasyShare at much lower CPU usage, if it were available as a retail product. And, if it worked with MMC 8.8.