[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Best, supported, TV-out chip as generic framebuffer?

[David Holm]

Neologism wrote:

>On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 08:10, David Holm wrote:
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>>Check dxr3.sourceforge.net to see what cards are supported.
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>Okay, I just scoured dxr3.sourceforge.net and couldn't find any
>information about which cards will or will not work with the generic
>framebuffer support in your MPlayer patch (which, I understand, is
>fairly recent functionality for the dxr3 project).  From this I assume
>that all of the cards being used with the dxr3 project will support the
>patch.
>
>Reading your own documentation I see that the dxr3 uses the bt865 chip
>instead of the adv717* for the TV-out.  Does anyone have a sense of
>which is the higher quality?  How about the VideoLogic board, anyone
>know what it uses?  My whole reason for wanting to purchase one of these
>cards is to get the highest Linux-supported TV-out quality I can.  The
>NetStream2000 has component outs (ooooooo!) in addition to S-Video.  Any
>sense of whether we can utilize undocumented generic framebuffer support
>on it as well?
>
>Thanks for your thoughts, I'm eager to purchase some hardware and get
>into the game, but I don't want to buy the wrong one.
>
>Neologism
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The best thing according to me is to buy a graphics card with video-out. 
The real benefits of the dxr3 are only applied when playing mpeg-(1/2)...