I have not tried yet but I do not want to try unless it may work.
My room mate has an old All in Wonder card…probably one of the first or second generation ones. Do you think it would work if I hooked it up to a 32 bit Vista system to just be a DVR? The way we have it set up it will not be the control for the TV but if we have it to record something while no one is actually using that cable TV terminal would it work?
On the computer side, it should work as long as you have the right slot for it. Newer computers don’t always have AGP (or god forbid, PCI) slots anymore.
On the TV side, do those cards support digital capture? I didn’t think so, so you might lose some or all of your channels depending on how they’re encoded…
From the wikipedia entry ( All-in-Wonder - Wikipedia )
The AIW card drivers are based on ATI’s Catalyst drivers with additional T200 unified stream drivers. Currently, the only operating systems fully supporting TV capture with these cards are Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 98, and 95
Not quite but related : I recently fished out an old Sound Blaster Live! from the Great Parts Storage [del]in the Sky[/del]under the Bed to try and replace a dying on-board audio chip. I found drivers for it and everything… but even with those, Windows 7 (32 bits) would not detect the card at all.
It been years since any motherboard was made with an AGP slot so the system would have to be pretty old. I doubt a vista system would be old enough.
After a quick search I see modern TV tuner / capture cards with digital and analog capability and a remote in the $100 range.