[MPlayer-users] TVout without X.

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:01:57PM +0200, Joel Larsson wrote:
> I have a hollywood + card in my windowsmachine and have tried some to 
> get it rollin on my linuxmachine but in avifiles I get audio sync 
> problems after watching some time. And also, sometimes MPEG files locks 
> mplayer, im not sure if that is because they are wrongly encoded or 
> something.
> 
> This whole TVout without X seems rather difficult to get working, i 
> should perhaps just buy a VGA to SVIDEO box and run it that way :)

It'll look horrible unless you're willing to pay a lot. Most of these
devices are scan converters that digitize and buffer whole frames (or
sometimes just one line) at a time, then rescale and send them out at
ntsc/pal resolution. Not pretty.

Rich