[MPlayer-users] Display card recommendations

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 06:28:59PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > Why would you want to recommend nVidia for Linux?  For Windows they may be
> > the best, but Matrox and Ati have much better driver support under Linux.
> > The drivers are open source also.  With MPlayer you will probably get the
> > best results with Matrox.  The mga_vid driver is excellent.
> 
> I really don't know about others, but when I had a problem with their AGP 
> driver implementation back then, and I emailed NVidia, I got a reply within 
> 30 minutes with a full explanation whats wrong and how to work around that 
> problem - so for me it helps.

Nice to hear.

> BTW: the open source "nv" driver also got Xv extension supported - so you can 
> use this driver as well..
> 
> As for Matrox and ATI - those drivers are SEMI open source. Have you tried 
> dual-head on Matrox? you'll need the closed source driver, and same goes for 
> ATI radeon driver for openGL (not the DRI stuff)..

Have you tried mga_vid?  If you are looking for a card that works well with
MPlayer I still maintain that Matrox is ahead of the others.

> I preffer (personally) a solution that works. I really don't care much if it's 
> open source, under GPL, and if they write "GNU/Linux" instead of "Linux" - I 
> got 5 machines at home (just installing SuSE 7.3 on an Ultra Sparc 30 clone 
> which I just received as a gift from a university) and I needed a solution 
> that works - both 3D and Xv. Nvidia gave me a solution, and I use it.

I prefer free software where possible.  Video drivers are a general problem
in this regard unfortunately...  Also I do not care one bit about 3D - so
why should I choose nVidia?  They had a bad record in the past, hopefully
they did improve now, they probably have.  Anyway this has ben discussed to
death here several times - let's just close the subject.

Diego