[MPlayer-users] recomended components for mplayer

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:45:38 +0100,
Attila Kinali wrote:
> 
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:10:33 +0200
> Banu Cosmin <sharpcoder at xnet.ro> wrote:
> 
> > 	I have a similar configuration, and i'd like to know
> > what's the best system configuration (not too cheap, not too
> > expensive) to use with mplayer ( ...  and linux in general
> > for multimedia), so we can get the best from your player.
> > 
> > 	I believe there are many people who want to know which is
> > the best at the moment for home entertainment.
> 
> Ok,
> Graphics card:
> Fastest are Matrox G200 and later with -vo (x)mga 
> (note that the G200 is slightly slower than the others due 
> different picture format)
> 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.

[...]

I suppose by ATI you also mean the Radeon cards. I have Radeon
VE, which has the infamous video overlay bug. If you're running
xv and decide to minimize the video output window you're stuck
with a freeze frame of the video you're playing.