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.
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.
On 2003-12-01 12:55:00 +0000 Edenyard mail@edenyard.co.uk wrote:
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?
Video cards that play DVDs? Actually the card? Not use a program? I think you get the idea.
From http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- "If you can't get an answer, please don't take it personally that we don't feel we can help you. Soemtimes the members of the asked group may simply not know the answer. No response is not the same as being ignored"
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