GS Hunt wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] I'm looking at buying a new video card...
I'm looking at an ATI Radeon 8500LE .. seems to be a good choice performance and price.
Anyone comments on choice and how it performs with Mplayer would be greatly appreciated.
Gary
Don't expect tv-out to work particularly well. I can currently get tv-out working with the tool 'atitvout' under _very_ special circumstances, but I'm not particularly satisfied with it. MPlayer has the vesa framebuffer & directfb drivers which have worked intermittently for me. Using -vo vesa currently just causes a segfault. Using -vo directfb works but there are sync problems and it's a little crashy. Other than that, the Radeons work nicely. But since you're posting to the mplayer list, I thought tv-out might be important to you...