From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Nov 20 9: 7:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [128.29.154.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7AC37B405; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:07:39 -0800 (PST) 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 fAKH7cc07888; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:07:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAKH7ba09290; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:07:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 8424448; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:06:54 -0500 Message-ID: <3BFA8DB2.DD68DC2A@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:06:58 -0500 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: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: makeing a DVD player from a laptop References: <200111201253.fAKCrrO36229@aldan.algebra.com> 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 owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a laptop with a DVD-drive and one of the ATI video cards with a > video output. There is also a sound card, of course. Any chance of > making the thing work as a DVD player under FreeBSD? > > I don't really need/want the playback on the monitor (under X11) -- I'm > mostly interested in using the video output -- to connect to my TV set. Unfortuntly TV-out on video cards has to be "protected" with Macrovision. Macrovision does not allow video card manufacturers to release the specs for the TV-out portion of their cards generally. I know Matrox has released a binary only utility that supposedly allows you to run TV-out on the Gxxx line, but I don't think ATI has followed suit. One thing you might want to try is just plugging in your TV before booting your computer. On my G200 this causes the card to automatically initalize the TV-out at startup. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| 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