From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Feb 15 4:27:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C2237B401 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:27:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2779D43F75 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:27:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@siemens.com) Received: from mail3.siemens.de (mail3.siemens.de [139.25.208.14]) by david.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1FCR8404350 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:27:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail3.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1FCR7T10551 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:27:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mars.cert.siemens.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/$SiemensCERT: mail/cert.mc,v 1.41 2003/01/31 16:25:20 ust Exp $) with ESMTP id h1FCR7BO092191 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:27:07 +0100 (CET) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h1FCR7YD014779 for freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:27:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:27:07 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux got TV-Out for the Matrox G450/550, any chance for FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20030215132707.A6559@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-Echelon: PGP, Verisign, MI5, enigma, KLM X-Advice: Drop that crappy M$-Outlook, I'm tired of your viruses! Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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