[MPlayer-users] interlaced material and tv out

[V Ganesh]

I'm building a media playing appliance which features mplayer as the heavy
lifter (probably a customized freevo/geexbox). don't really need X, framebuffer
is more than sufficient. now my primary requirements are:
1. tv out
2. playing interlaced material (dvd) on the TV. I want no deinterlacing done
   at mplayer's level. the interlaced frame must be dumped to the BES/fb,
   where the card's tv encoder will pick it up, deliver the fields in correct
   order to the TV. basically the output should be at least as good as that of a
   regular hardware dvd player (no tearing, flickering etc)
3. modest cpu, preferably no more than a p3/celeron 600-733MHz, even lower
   if possible.

from reading up various docs, I find that g400 with directfb's dfbmga will do
exactly this with triple buffering and hardware vsync support.

the question is, does the driver framework of any other card provide such
capabilities (triple buffering, h/w vsync), so that the output is as good
as the g400?

I'm mainly looking at ATI. going through mplayer docs, it appears that
using vesafb + vidix should give accelerated tv output for ATI. does that
make a radeon 7000's tv out equivalent to g400's output?

thanks in advance.