[MPlayer-users] Re: recomended components for mplayer

[gabor farkas]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:37:15AM -0600, Shaun Green wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > Then come all the cards which have a Xv driver, best is here to 
> > > choose either a Matrox (again :) or an ATI.
> > > nvidia is the worse choice you can make.
> 
> Unfortunately though, almost all new computers these days from Dell and Gateway esp,
> ship with the Geforce NVidia class video cards in them, meaning that when the average
> Joe buys a computer, he won't get the best performance with mplayer out-of-the-box.
> 
> It's too bad NVidia won't release the code to their drivers :o(( They've managed to
> corner the game market however, like Microshaft has done. So they can just do
> whatever they want since they sell them hand over fist!

<flame>
pliizz... can we stop this nvidia bashing ? :-)

yes, i'd love if nvidia would release the driver sources
yes, i know i can buy an ati or a matrox card.
yes, for watching movies i'd buy a matrox card.
no, i won't buy an ati or a matrox card, because sometimes i want to
play some 3d games, and there aren't any open-source drivers with fast
3d performance for fast 3d cards ( by fast cards i mean geforce3+,
ati8500+, matrox parhelia+ )... 

and btw. look at the new/fast ati or matrox cards ( 8500, 9700, parhelia
)... they ONLY offer binary drivers :-))
</flame>

gabor


> 
> Shaun
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