[Mplayer-users] what is a recommended video card for playing DVD movies with mplayer?

[Christoph Lampert]

Hi,

>Hi,
>  I have a machine with a PII 350 Mhz. processor. I want to get good DVD
>playback on this machine 64megs RAM. I wish to buy a good video card (say
>like the Radeon) which supports DVD hardware decoding. How wil these work
>with mplayer, and how is the playback quality on such a configuratioon of
>DVD movies? How are the other options like the GeForce2MX, etc.? Upgrading
>the processor is not an option, but I can get more RAM. I would be very
>grateful for any advice on the matter.

Hardware DVD abilities are _NOT_ supported by Linux and/or MPlayer. For no 
graphics card. What you can do is use Xvideo-Mode to get YV12 overlay and 
hardware scaling, which is good, but not enough to play DVD on PII 350.
I'd say, spend the same money on a Duron CPU+Motherboard, then you get DVD 
playback. 

Amount of RAM is not important (for this). 

Or, use the Radeon (or similar) with Windows, then drivers support DVD hardware. 

gruel

-- 
Dipl. math. Christoph Lampert (complex analysis, integral formulae)
Email: gruel at gmx.de                |     Email: lampert at math.chalmers.se


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