AW: [MPlayer-users] ati radeon 8500

[Arpi]

Hi,

> the gforce chip is MUCH faster than the radeon...
why?

> the gforce driver is very fast (its from nvidia itself...) but the gforce
and sometimes very unstable

> drivers are closed source
true

> the ati drives are not developed by ati and they are open source...
they are developed at ati, since DRI team has beaten out from VA

> take a look at www.xfree86.org to see about the drivers...
dri.sf.net

> the tv-out signal of the ati card is better and its online at bootup - so u
> can connect ur pc to ur tv an watch the kernel coming up ;)
right

> if u want best performance take the nvidia - vidix is coming up...
dreaming...
there will be NEVER vidix for nvidia.

> if u want a flexible and good tv-out solutin witch is already supported by
> vidix take the ati...
vidix is designed for ati cards and works well with them


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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