Author Topic: Gforce VIVO cards (Read 315 times)

boxboy28 · « **on:** February 17, 2003, 02:22:53 PM »

Im just curious are the Geforce VIVO cards the same thing and ATI's all - in - wonder?

Tarmac · « **Reply #1 on:** February 17, 2003, 03:05:33 PM »

No TV tuner on my GF4 VIVO.

All in wonder has tuner.

bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 17, 2003, 04:03:21 PM »

nVidia GeForce based VIVO cards vary by manufacturer with regards to features. Most use a 3rd party chip to do the actual video in part. Asus makes a line of VIVO GeForce cards. Another issue is that the software necessary to use the video in funtionality is not part of the nVidia reference drivers. That means your hardware vendor (ex Asus) provides the capture utility.

The ATI cards of the All in Wonder series are all the same and the ATI drivers include the capture utility. (At least they used to, I haven't messed with one newer than the 8500 series Radeon.)

Skuzzy · « **Reply #3 on:** February 17, 2003, 04:20:18 PM »

ATI still provides that software bloom and they keep adding new toys to it.

boxboy28 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2003, 11:53:19 AM »

So you guys are saying that the Geforce cards do not include a TV tuner on them even though its labeled as VIVO?
do some brands (of the Geforece) have a turner incorparated?

If not im gonna have to go ATI AIW for my next purchase or buy a separate tuner card!

Dinger · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2003, 02:33:22 PM »

I have an ATI ViVo card, not an AIW. (That's the RADEON 64 DDR VIVO, for those of you scoring at home)
It has video in/out but not a tuner.
Unless it says it has a tuner, it doesn't have one.
But for most purposes, Video-In is sufficient. I have a stereo VCR that, and I just run the composite out into the video-in, and the stereo to the line-in and it works fine.
If you have to have a tuner, you can also buy a separate tuner card (companies like hauppage now make HDTV tuner cards).

But ATI's video stuff is really well done.
(note that in my experience video recording through ViVO with a SB Audigy card doesn't work -- no audio).