[MPlayer-users] best viedo card for Mplayer FB/X11?

[Felix Buenemann]

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 14:27, Schend, Thomas wrote:
> Hi
>
> What ist he best video card to playback videos with mplayer to FB on a TV
> out?
>
> I want to make a little standalone PC with a atx flex board and I have
> several chipsets to choose from.
>
>
> SIS 315 VGA Graphic engine
> S3 Savage 4
> S3 Savage
>
> Has anyone tried these gfx cards yet with Framebuffer? Or have I to use x11
> instead?
> No other way to playback dvd/svcd/vcd/divx in the console then FB? Doesn't
> SVGAlib work?
>
> Any help because I want to choose one board very soon..:for a standalone
> divx player :-)

All above chips are shit, but use one with savage chip, it has vesa, xvideo 
and tv-out support for linux (yea vesa fb works too).

There is IMHO no chip named only Savage, I have eg Savage/MX, so take the one 
with the most recent Savage chip.

>
> Best regards
> Thomas a.k.a. PANIC!

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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