[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Re: will there be further development formatroxg450 cards?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:58:02PM +0200, justin case wrote:
> > The way you get around it is the same as on the g400: don't use it!
> > Instead use the accelerated fb0 and map it to the tv.
> 
> That doesn't work on G450/G550. Only CRTC2 can drive the (integrated) TV
> encoder. Also the G450/G550 TV encoder is more limited than the G400's
> maven chip (no scaling/filtering). I think they are both based on Zoran
> CVE2 core.
> 
> thx. for clearing that up.
> 
> > > what i actually read was that matrox had once given out specs for the
> g400
> > > and so tv-out became possible with that card, but the g450 works a bit
> > > different internally and matrox all of a sudden refused to help with
> specs
> > > for that card.
> >
> > This is basically true but I don't think it matters for our particular
> > situation. However I've never used a g450 so I can't be sure.
> 
> The G400 specs don't include information on TV-out.
> 
> the more i learn about matrox cards, the more i wonder why commonly most
> people are so delighted about these cards. trusting the "best supported card
> under linux" i went and bought a g450 mms and 4 g450 cards and i am not so
> delighted, really.

We're not delighted about them in general. Just G400. AFAIK G450 works
too, but YMMV.

Rich