[MPlayer-users] how to get proper tv-out working with a matrox g450?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 09:58:33AM +0200, justin case wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i've had enourmous trouble trying to get a matrox g450 to display video on
> the tv-out and found it actually not to be supported. tv-out worked via
> matroxfb on secondary head as /dev/fb1 but with ugly effects probably from
> lack of proper buffering as well as no acceleration on fb1 (i got nasty
> "cuts" in the middle of the picture, looked like the next frame was
> overlapping..), so i found it to be unusable. i followed this guide:
> http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout/g450_tvout_howto.html

You could also try directfb, which should work properly with fb1. Or,
modify vo_fbdev or vo_fbdev2 to support page flipped mode like
mplayer-g2 can do. (I wouldn't recommend using G2 itself because it
barely works.)

Rich