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Date:      Sun, 14 Dec 1997 18:27:31 +0000
From:      "Þorður Ivarsson" <totii@est.is>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RTP tools (was: Re: Remote and Voice control)
Message-ID:  <34942513.A204D0FE@est.is>
References:  <199712141206.EAA11703@rah.star-gate.com> <199712141409.PAA01772@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199712141638.SAA28871@silver.sms.fi>

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Petri Helenius wrote:
> 
> Luigi Rizzo writes:
>  > > The full screen playback is a low level X thingie and either we will
>  > ...
>  > > > hardware than similar function performed under Win95. I only wish we
>  > > > could get full screen operation for mtv in the future (Tristan?)
>  >
>  > What I usually do in this case is to have a small-resolution mode in
>  > XF86Config (e.g. 400x300 etc.) so when I want to see full screen video
>  > (with tv/fxtv/vic at least) I switch video mode (with CTRL_ALT-+) to
>  > one matching the size of the window I want to watch.
> 
> Yes, my question would be can this be done from the application? That
> is run a "fullscreen.c" and then it would do this trick and fire up
> MPEG-TV or whatever.
>  >
>  > The of course move a couple of meters away from your screen :)
>  >
> Yes. I've been looking at the TV-out cards but haven't decided on any
> of them yet. However since my TV has RGB input, would anyone know if
> XFree can be tuned to small enough resolution with interlacing to be
> displayed on the TV?
> 
> Pete

As far I know the scan frequency of all cards exept (good old) cga card
are lot to high above that most TV sets can handle

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