From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 17 22:40:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ECCC37B404 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8775 invoked by uid 100); 18 Apr 2002 05:40:03 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15550.23602.845319.927828@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:40:02 -0500 To: Jason Andresen Cc: Andre Albsmeier , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working TV-Out wanted, what to buy? In-Reply-To: <3CB6E14F.A9BC62DC@mitre.org> References: <20020411081558.A10505@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <3CB6E14F.A9BC62DC@mitre.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) 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 In <3CB6E14F.A9BC62DC@mitre.org>, Jason Andresen typed: > 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 got the same working on the ATI cards. Well, I've got it working under FreeBSD at 640x480. I haven't yet figured out what to do to get it running at 800x600, but it should work that way, as it does under Windows. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message