Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:30:20 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makeing a DVD player from a laptop Message-ID: <200111201730.fAKHUK256146@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <3BFA8DB2.DD68DC2A@mitre.org>
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>Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:06:58 -0500 >From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> >> 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. That may well be; I confess ignorance on that score. >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. Well, I have been able to display my X server's window(s) on TV, and the video card on my laptop is an ATI Rage Mobility. I was, however, unable to display on both the TV & the LCD panel at the same time. (Running XFree86-4.) And my spouse, who has a slightly updated version of my laptop, but which is only running "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" was able to play a DVD on her machine, but when she tried to direct the output to TV, everthing displayed just fine, except for the window where the image from the DVD was: it remained black. >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. I found that I could connect the TV while the machine was up, but I needed to use a sequence of keyboard chords, such as Fn+F7 and Fn+F8 a few times. Cheers, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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