[MPlayer-users] Matrox G550

[dan carter]

Geoffrey Trexler wrote:
> 
> So should I buy a G450? I need a video card that is capable of playing DVD's from my PC to the TV.

An NVIDIA card, eg a cheap GeForce 2 MX, works great for playing movies
through mplayer onto the TV.  Assuming you are on x86 as i don't think
the xfree86 drivers support TV out, only the binary x86 ones released by
NVIDIA.