[MPlayer-users] Graphics Card with TV-Out supported by mplayer

[Daniel A. Nagy]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:01:06PM +0100, Dieter Bloms wrote:

> > but i needs a TV with RGB input, right? i've never seen such TV...
> > all of them use only composite i/o of the scart connector :(
> 
> Yes, you need RGB, but most of the TVs support RGB.
> You need a voltage about 0.9V-3V on pin 16 of the scart plug.
> Even my old TV (40cm screen diagonal, 13 years old) supports it ;)

Yeah, but as far as I remember, there's one pin on the same connector that
has that 'sense' voltage, so you can switch your set to RGB mode by
connecting two pins of the SCART connector.

The more elegant soulution, of course is to detect the TV-like signal on the
VGA output of the computer. With a little electronics (not too much; the
cheapest PIC with some auxiliary discrete analog stuff will do), you can get
your TV to switch to RGB automagically as soon as you switch your X server to a
TV-compatible mode. Thus, you don't have to fool around with the cables each
time you want to watch movies on your TV.

> I've a matrox g100 and the picture quality is brilliant.

Oh, how I miss that quality in this retarded North America... :-(

-- 
Dan