* Crispin Wellington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 12:32, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > > I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, > > primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television > > there, however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card. > > > > In order to get DVD's scaled to full screen, it'd be nice to have some > > degree of 2d acceleration on the tv-out, to get real Xv-type speeds. I > > understand the TNT2s that have tv-out are pretty good, but I've yet to hear > > any confirmation about whether or not they would support Xv on a > > output-to-tv display. > > Last time I checked (6 months ago) they did not support xv on tv-out. > This may have changed with nVidias latest drivers. However it may not > have due to Macrovision concerns in nVidia. > > What experiences have people had with Matrox G400's? > > Somebody? Somebody? > > Crispin
I have a Matrox G400 32Mb dual-head. Using mplayer I can play DVD or VCD or whatever out to the second head with Xv enabled. I'm using Matrox framebuffer stuff from the console. The only problem I ran into is that I can't figure out is how to set the geometry of the picture to get rid of the black lines at the bottom and the left side. Their docs and tools are tuned for PAL format and I was not able to set the framebuffer correctly for a NTSC TV. Rather than that there is no visible difference between playing it out on the primary screen or TV. Some links to start: http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/~vana/matroxfb.html http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/video.html#2.3.1.7 Alex. Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
