Watching TV With Transparency

[Jim Little]

I want to add a USB or PCI-based solution to my computer so that I can watch
TV in a window on Windows XP Pro SP2. I bought the ATI Wonder 200 card, yet
it does not allow me to set the transparency of the TV image. I would like
to make the TV image transparent to that I can see text (such as from a web
browser or spreadsheet) that's under it.

I don't understand whether setting such transparency is a function of the
video card, tv card, or operating system software/driver. I'm getting
conflicting information from the manufacturers--but no solutions yet.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-- Jim

 

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I want to add a USB or PCI-based solution to my computer so that I can
watch TV in a window on Windows XP Pro SP2. I bought the ATI Wonder
200 card, yet it does not allow me to set the transparency of the TV
image. I would like to make the TV image transparent to that I can see
text (such as from a web browser or spreadsheet) that's under it.

I don't understand whether setting such transparency is a function of
the video card, tv card, or operating system software/driver. I'm
getting conflicting information from the manufacturers--but no
solutions yet.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-- Jim

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[Jim Little]

I tried that and it does not work. The video (TV) image is rendered using a
different video pipeline from the usual XP-generated windows. The
transparency feature worked well for all windows BUT the video window.

Any other ideas?