[MPlayer-users] Offtopic -- G400 TV-Out on a single output G400

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:54:01PM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >> Matrox sells a svga->tvout cable intended to be used with the second
> >> svga connector on the dual screen G400s.
> 
> Huh? Never heard! I have just such a card. How much such a cable would
> approximately cost? Would it work in Linux using only free software?
> 
> I haven't yet gotten the second connector to work even with standard VGA
> monitor yet, although I gave up pretty soon.
> 
> >The G400 is an almost antique card, so don't compare it to what is now on
> >the market.
> 
> As far as I have heard, G400 has still best support from free drivers. The
> 3D acceleration is completely open source, and there aren't many such
> cards. I'm not sure about the status of the TV-out (would it need
> proprietary binary drivers?).

No, it's all 100% free. All the necessary programs come with mplayer
(in the TVout directory).

Rich