From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Apr 16 7:49:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD8B37B420; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3CDTwx20310; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:29:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3CDTuu18796; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:29:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 9842544; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:28:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3CB6E14F.A9BC62DC@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:29:51 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Albsmeier Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working TV-Out wanted, what to buy? References: <20020411081558.A10505@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > Since TV-Out using my Matrox G550 doesn't seem to be possible under > XFree4.2 (it works with Win98), can anyone recommend me what to buy? > > The requirements are quite simple, I think: > > 1. The card should support the main screen (1280x1024) and > TV-Out (PAL). > > 2. Mplayer should work with the TV-Out. > > I have heard that GeForce{1,2,3} with TV-Out work quite well. > Other success stories come from people using ATI cards. But none > of them use FreeBSD, only Linux. Well, I've managed to get TV-out on a Matrox G200 Mystique. However, it only works if you have it plugged in a boot time and are running at a resolution the card can support (like 800x600) on the TV-out. In this case, the card automatically mirrors whatever is on the screen on the tv-out port. I've never managed to get the powerdesk (/usr/ports/x11/mgapdesk) to actually be useful or to turn on the TV-out once the machine is already booted unfortunatly. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message