[MPlayer-users] Re: best graphical card for mplayer

[rcooley]

Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> I don't have a GeForce, but the older TNT2. With GeForce, you probably 
> only need to use the proprietary driver if you want OpenGL acceleration. 
> XFree's "nv" driver does hardware accelerated 2D and XVideo. I'd 
> certainly avoid the proprietary ones if I could.
> 
> Jonathan Rogers

How sure are you about 'nv' doing XV?  With my AGP GeForce4, XV wasn't 
working (X 2.4.0).

Not that it matters too much for me, since I need the binary driver for 
TV-out.