On Monday 01 December 2003 12:55, Edenyard wrote:
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?
Not exactly a video card, but I have a DVD MPEG card in my machine here that has a Composite and Svideo output. Naturally this is only any good for watching DVD's, you cannot use it as a video output card.
Hollywood + (or Creative DXR3) with open source drivers on Sourceforge (apart from the firmware for the card) and with a bit of fiddling it works well with my DVD software on Linux (Xine)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxr3/
All the features that I use seem to work fine, not sure about the VGA loopthrough to enable accelerated DVD playback on the monitor as I never used it, suport for that bit seemed buggy last time I tried (a few driver releases ago no doubt)
Good feature is that because the MPEG decoding is done on the card there is very little for the processor to do, my party trick used to be to play Quake 3 whilst playing back a DVD...no stutter.
Mind you after that, people stopped comming to my parties :o)
Not sure if it's still available. If not then mine is redundant now as my PC is in a different room to the Telly. anyone can make me a reasonable offer.