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These are really old webpages, they are here just for reference. You can find tarball of LinuxVideo CVS on main GATOS webpage.

GATOS Homepage

GATOS project source code can be found in linuxvideo CVS.

News

Wednesday 24 October 2001 An experimental video4linux capture module is now available. Get it from the our CVS at Sourceforge or from Sourceforge file area.

For instructions on installing ATI-4.1.0.i386.tar.gz modules see in the end of this file.

Do _NOT_ mix XFree drivers (i.e. 4.1.0 drivers are meant _only_ for 4.1.0).

Installing ati.2 binaries

• Download tarfile from the link below
• Backup your /usr/X11R6/ directory (or wherever you installed XFree 4.1.0)
• Make sure that /usr/X11R6 points to the directory where you installed XFree 4.1.0. It could be a symlink, it could be a hardlink.
• Change directory to /usr and unpack the archive:

      tar zxvf ATI-4.1.0.i386.tar.gz
  

  This will install some additional modules and replace some binaries that are part of standard XFree86 4.1.0 installation.

Note: many people have reported problems installing over RPM or DPKG based installations. These problems stem from the fact that package maintainers get creative and put XFree86 in non-standard places. Our "official" recommended way is to either compile XFree86 4.1.0 tree yourself (this way you can develop too) or to use plain XFree86 binaries - the ones in .tgz format.

Watching TV

Downloading

• Linuxvideo CVS (ati_xv, gatos, ibtk)
• GATOS Sourceforge CVS (avview, km and backup ati_xv)

Resources:

• FAQ by Bob Bell
• Guide to debugging dri (3d acceleration)
• A sample mpeg file for testing
• DRM kernel modules from 4.1.0 (Last updated 8:01pm Sunday, October 28th 2001) Compile these to get dri to work with 4.1.0. Or use modules that come with Linux 2.4.15 or later.
• livid-ati and livid-gatos mailling lists.
• thread from video@ mailing list that discusses implementation of symbolic attribute values in Xv (XvTranslateIntValue)
• thread from xpert@ mailing list that discusses implementation of XvShmGetImage
• xawtv - TV application that supports Xvideo (you need it if you have an All-in-Wonder card and use ati_xv).
• Xine - mpeg/DVD/AVI movie player.
• OMS - mpeg/DVD movie player.
• Register grabber for Rage Theatre (by Michal Schwarz, communicated by Kostal Ivo). (rttest source) (latest version can be found on Michal's homepage) Note: it is very likely that it will not recognize your card because it has a different PCI id. To get it to work with your card lookup your card's PCI id in /proc/pci and then replace in rttest.exe at offset 0003:faa3 0x46 0x52 (which stands for PCI id 0x5246) with PCI id for you card. Here is the dump of rttest.exe around 0003:faa3:

  0003:fa90 d0 fe ff ff 02 10 0f 85 a9 00 00 00 66 81 bd d2
  0003:faa0 fe ff ff 46 52 0f 85 9a 00 00 00 8b 85 e8 fe ff
  (recipe from Sebastian Ehrenreich).

• Kostal Ivo has posted several modified versions of ati.2 that work with European versions of All-in-Wonder 128. Look in the mailing list archive for announcements. Note: as of now all this code has been merged into CVS.
• FFMPEG is a free software encoder that supports mpeg and other formats. Capable of real-time encoding
• patch to ffmpeg verion 0.4.5 to get it working with kmultimedia