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<BODY>Wow!!<br>
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I have been looking for a solution like this ever since I started subscribing to this list. I have a Toshiba Tecra 8200 with a Trident Cyberblade XP. As of Xfree 4.1.0-6 (debian package) xv doesn't work yet. And I havn't even started on getting the tv-out working. I have a remote control :) The machine is quite powerfull p3 750, 256 mb ram, so maybe I can try the svga that you're using. Could you provide me / others with more detail. This looks quite promising.<br>
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On fre, 2001-09-28 at 15:07, Robinson, Chad wrote:<pre><FONT COLOR="#737373">> RE: [Mplayer-users] tv out on nvidia cards --> Renaming to TV Out (most of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> us don't care about NVidia!)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Stephen Davies wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > Chad Robinson wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > > I don't know about NVidia, but I am using an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > > with TV-out and SVGALib. (X11 works, too, but I prefer SVGALib.) </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > > Works very well, although I can't go above 640x480.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > And I can tell you that a Voodoo 3000 with TV-out works.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > I hacked the bt869 driver to support 720x576 output. What chip does</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > the ATI card use to make the interlaced video? Would this bt869 </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > driver help you?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Thanks for the offer, but actually, I'm not using direct video out. The ATI</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> card automatically turns on its TV-out whenever you are in 640x480 or a text</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> mode. Therefore, I use Linux Framebuffer at boot to go into 640x480, and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> stay in that mode forever after, using scaling in MPlayer to scale up</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> smaller movies.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> The only problem is, no down-scaling in MPlayer. So, this does not work for</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> movies wider(usually)/taller(never seen on) than 640x480. :-( I was thinking</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> about trying to hack this in by reversing what the up-scaling does, but</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> really don't know much about bilinear/bicubic math, so it'll have to wait</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> for the moment.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Otherwise, this is nearly a perfect solution. I get to save all the space of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> X, and I can have a fully automated solution. My project will have its own</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> 640x480 SVGALib interface that I will write to allow the user to select a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> movie to play using an I/R remote control. No keyboard, no mouse.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > Incidentally - there is another approach to TV output from PCs - which is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > to drive the TV directly with PAL-rate interlaced output from the VGA</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > card. This can be done with a simple VGA->SCART cable with few or even no</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > active components. And a TV with an RGB-input SCART.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> For what it's worth, I've done this. (Although I use NTSC, and some</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> conversion is in order.) I must say, it's a bit of a pain. Picking the right</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> video card, etc. It's better to just buy a VGA->NTSC/PAL converter. They can</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> be had for about $80 for 640x480/800x600 versions, and a bit more for all</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> major resolutions. If your video card doesn't support TV-Out this way works</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> fine.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> But, it's a bit blurry...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Chad</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
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