[MPlayer-users] Re: Matrox boards

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > Regarding to the freevo's hardware from freevo.sourceforge.net (400MHz
> > CPU ?) I recommend a G400 or a G450. A friend of mine use a PII 266 with
> > a G450 and mplayer works well.
> 
> I'd like to use my G400 in this way too, but I want to be able to have
> the video sent to the TV on head #2 while using the computer with X on
> head #1. I want the video on the TV to be hardware scaled (BES/mga_vid/
> vidix). The matrox white papers[1] say the board does this, but I can't
> get mplayer to do it. It needs to have the same image on both heads to
> so it does the hardware scaling via head#1 while sending the TVout to

you can swap head1 and head2, so get unscaled unaccelerated image (like X)
on head 1 and BES on head 2 (TV). see TVout/independ script.

> head #2. Windows apparently does some 3D zooming to replace the
> functions of the BES on head #2 which hasn't been done yet for linux.
yes.

> Does the G450 work the same way? Or is there a BES on head #2 with that.
g450 and g550 is the same as g400, just different memory setup (half wide
bus and ddr ram instead of sd/sg). programming teh 2D part is the same,
no difference. but the g450/g550 doesn't have maven tv-out chip, it has
something worse, the matroxfb author compared it to soft-modems. no linux
support for that.

> What (PCI) video card should I get that can do hardware scaling, TV out
> and isn't too expensive :(. I dont want to upgrade my processors so
> software scaling is out of the question.
pci + bes + tv? maybe a pci voodoo3 or ati mach64 wiht tvout


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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