[MPlayer-users] "What card do you suggest me to buy?"

[Chris Phillips]

> > If it has no fix, i'll buy another, but I don't want nVidia anymore.
> > What I expect from the new card
> > 
> >         1. Good TVOut.
> >         2. Open (and working) drivers
> >         3. mplayer support :)
> >         4. OpenGl support. I don't need a GF4-like monster. My now
> >            defunct card was ok for my needs.
> > 
> > Does any match my needs?
> 
> I'd suggest one of the ATI Radeons. They have all the features you require.

can i risk drifting utterly out of the mplayer ballpark and ask exactly 
what you get from a TV-out signal? obviously i know what it does, and i 
want to be able to use mplayer to play films on my tv, but... is a tv-out 
signal normally just a permanent TV version of the monitor output? is more 
configuration required?? I'vv been looking at some of the new matrox dual 
head cards with tvout of a zoomed in part of the other screen and stuff...
but i presume all that kind of thing is impossible outside of windows?

thanks
chris
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