Thanks to Adam, Anthony and MJR for the thoughts on video cards.
Adam wrote:
>
> to make your own VGA to Scart/RGB cable and use custom refresh rates to drive
> the TV, you could possibly kill your tv doing this :) As far as I know there
> are no consumer gfx cards that do RGB out (they either do composite or
> s-video)
> if anyone can prove me wrong then that would be fantastic.
>
RGB out was only a preference - I'd happily accept composite PAL or
even YUV. But I suppose YUV is even more unlikely than RGB?
Anthony Anson wrote:
>
> Did you say why you wanted a different card and what constitutes 'good'?
>
Yes, I did. I want something that plays DVDs well and something that
gives composite, RGB or YUV video signals (in addition to the standard
VGA socket). What constitutes 'good' is being well supported by Linux,
i.e., having stable drivers that make all of the card's functions work.
MJR wrote:
>
> Most likely, your question wasn't precise enough
>
Well - fair enough, if it wasn't. However (and with all due respect),
I'd have thought that "I want well-supported video card for Linux that
plays DVDs with video out" might have been specific enough to get
something going?
>
> (seen ESR's paper about "smart questions"?)
>
No! What's that all about, then?
Thanks for the input!
Gerald.