I bought a G400, and TV quality is excellent. I soldered a cable together - and I'm crap at such things - my hands shake - but with a bit of patience I got it done. Matrox were out, hence the soldering, but I signed up for email notification when they restocked - it took about a month but they got a shipment in last month. It's only about 10 bucks or so, so not bad - canada and the uk had then in stock the whole time.
having said that I do have a few issues: 1. There was a bit of hoop jumping to get the then cvs latest directfb to compile 2. While quality is excellent in both freevo and mplayer (-vo dfbmga) with perfect overscan I'm limited to directfb / SDL apps - without X and specifically XV extensions I can't get a decent xmame going - the sdl/frame buffer mame will attempt to use a modeline nearest the game res. rather than resizing, but for directfb tv output you're limited to native NTSC/PAL resolution. 3. The screen flickering as directfb re-initializes every time it switches between freevo and mplayer. I'm able to play divx's and dvd's no problem on a p2 400 - with something insane like only 30% cpu usage - I just wish I could use X for xine/ogle/xmame. Chris. On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:25:25 -0500, "William Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Excerpts (reformatted) from Matt McLeod's mail of 15 Jan 2004 (EST): > > Yup, what you're missing is that the G400 has special cable to hook up > > to the second VGA port, and that provides composite and S-video > > output. > > > > They can be a bit tricky to get hold of, though, if it doesn't come > > with the card. But Matrox does have a pinout for it in their support > > wossname, so if you're handy with a soldering iron you can make one > > for yourself. > > This is turning into a bit of a problem for me too. Pricewatch lists a > few companies that sell the G400, and there are a couple Ebay auctions, > but no one seems to include the cable. And I'm NOT handy with the ol' > soldering iron. > > It may be time for me to start looking for another card. > > -- > William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. > Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering > advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. > Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
