[MPlayer-users] Graphics Card with TV-Out supported by mplayer

Robert Kasunic robert at kasunic.de
Mon Dec 17 10:57:38 CET 2001


Hello Dan,

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:01:23PM +1300, daniel carter wrote:
> If you are on an x86 box, then an NVIDIA GeForce2-MX will work.  You can
> either run a standalone Xserver just on TV Out, or you can use xinerama to
> have the tv-out and your CRT as one big desktop, this allows you to have
> both outputs active at once, which doesn't work with the former
> configuration.
> 
> Xv and opengl  is supported in either mode to take advantage of hardware
> scaling etc.  If you use the xinerama configuration, i've got some patches
> for mplayer that allow you to specify which screen you want the movie to
> display on, and fixes the screen size detection.

is Xv really supported by the nvidia binary drivers? Last time I tried
it with my tnt2 card it wasn't. Moreover I couldn't get the picture to
fill out the TV, so the TV-Out of my card wasn't useable at all.

Robert




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