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

[Sergei Klink]

Hello Julian,

Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 2:06:50 PM, you wrote:

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JJM> El lun, 20-05-2002 a las 22:25, Toth Csaba escribiу:
>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I'm a Matrox G200 owner and am playing movies on framebuffer console with
>> mga_vid. I'm planning to purchase an ATI Radeon 7500. I wonder if it is a
>> good idea compared to G200 or should I buy a Matrox G400. My first goal is
>> to find a solution, which has good video quality, fast (it is as hardware
>> accelerated as possible, _and_ it has as low CPU pressure as possible), and
>> has as many features (gamma correction, brightness, ...) as possible. In
>> advance: I'll not game with my configuration (I develop softwares besides
>> the movie playing), so don't say me Geforce.

JJM> Hi,

JJM>         Sadly, I also have to buy a new card. My GeForce 256 SDR has broken
JJM> today. It still works, but the image has deep horizontal shadows,
JJM> specially when there is something black in the screen (e.g. a terminal).
JJM> If it has no fix, i'll buy another, but I don't want nVidia anymore.
JJM> What I expect from the new card

JJM>         1. Good TVOut.
JJM>         2. Open (and working) drivers
JJM>         3. mplayer support :)
JJM>         4. OpenGl support. I don't need a GF4-like monster. My now
JJM>            defunct card was ok for my needs.

JJM> Does any match my needs?

JJM> Greetings,
JJM>         Julian.



No, I can't take it anymore! I should say that I also need to buy a
video card with a TVout and about the same functionality, but wasn't
quite sure whether this mail.list is the appropriate one.
I heard from one of my friends who is using GF2MX200(asus v7100 or
something like that) and it seems to have more or less good xvideo and
opengl support(he didn't have any troubles with that) and it is
probably something like GF 256(oh, I think I'm awfully bad at all
this) but he complained about the quality of the image on resolutions
higher than 1024x768(my current Riva128 seems to have troubles with
that, too even on 1024x768(like curved left upper corner and other
stuff) and he as a former owner of RivaTNT2 says that he had problems
similar to mine.
Yes, nvidia cards do not look good here, but it seems that others
don't always do a lot better - the only opinion I always hear about
radeon is that it is always slower than similar GF and has buggy
drivers. Maybe someone can provide me with another one? :)
So, it looks like voodoo5 would be not too bad to have - that's
probably the only one I haven't really heard complaints of(doesn't
mean anything, I know). Matrox ones with TVout are probably too slow.
Oh, I think this is terrible - it is so difficult to find the right
video card compared to, say, sound card...

-- 
Best regards,
 Sergei                            mailto:sklink at yandex.ru

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