Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:27:07 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux got TV-Out for the Matrox G450/550, any chance for FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20030215132707.A6559@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
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The following is based on my own experiences and a lot of searching on the web... I have a Matrox G400-DH and use the second head to display the output of mplayer on a TV. BTW, this works great by using the following command: mplayer -display :0.1 -vo x11 -fs -zoom -double I have to use the Matrox HAL binary since this is the only way to use TV-Out. The newer cards G450/550 also have TV-Out support but only for M$ windows. Several month ago I (and lots of other people) asked about TV-Out support for these newer cards on the official Matrox Linux forum (http://forum.matrox.com/cgi-bin/mgaforum/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=2&SUBMIT=Go) but never received any reply. In fact, while there is a really good support regarding other subjects, the ignorance w.r.t. TV-Out even drove some people away from Matrox (that's what they said, at least) and made me stick with my G400-DH :-(. Today, when I looked for some hints how to enable overscan on the G400-DH using TV-Out, I found some websites which claim to have support for TV-Out for the G450/550 cards under Linux: http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.eriksen/matrox_tvout/ http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.eriksen/matrox_tvout/g450_tvout_howto.html http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/linux/matrox-latest/ http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/directfb/ They seems to use the Direct Frame Buffer thingie under Linux; afaik nothing like this exists in FreeBSD. Since I don't know enough about these things -- maybe someone wants to have a look at the URLs... It would be interesting to know if there is chance to get this stuff ported to FreeBSD. Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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