[MPlayer-users] Display card recommendations

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Fri Aug 9 18:57:02 CEST 2002


Hi,

> Don't know why anyone should use a nvidia for a vdr. It is really crap to use 
> them. They have terrible signal-quality and don't know if they can be used 
> tv-out only. The Rage128 is in all I've heard the card to choose , because 
> they are good for this purpose and cheap. The deluxe-version is of course the 
> matrox, the tv-out I've heard should be very good, and for vdr nothing else 
> is IMHO important (by the way, can you use a graphic-card as primary display 
> for vdr ? ) The main problem is to get a matrox. All I could buy was a G550 
> for a lot of bucks, tried to get a G200 or G400 with no result. 

be careful, no linux support for g450/g550's Tv-out !!!!!!!!!!!!!
so, if you want tv with matrox, you have to bug a g400 somewhere.
or choose any ATI card.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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