--- Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 08:44, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > > > > > What do you guys recommend as a TV out device for a Linux computer? > > > The requirements as i can think of right now: > > > - drivers available for free (or coming with the device) but anyway > > > it must not have weird requirements regarding the kernel etc. (a la > > > nVidia) > > Has your computer enought power to convert the video to mjpeg, and > > than play it back using your mjpeg card. That should work well with > > mplayer and a CPU faster than 1GHz. > > I'll definitely keep that in my mind. > Meanwhile, someone else suggested a DXR3 card. Besides being cheap, it > fits my requirements. Seems like i'll experiment with that first.
The DXR3/Hollywood+ cards make excellent TV out devices for Linux computers. I'm using several Hollywood+'s (same basic card as a Creative DXR3) for my pvr/timeshifting setup and it (the H+) produces a simply beautiful picture out to the tv with either good quality input encoded with mpeg2enc, or from DVD vob files. The latest mplayer has some small a/v sync issues with the H+ and seeking forward/backwards within the stream, but a pause or reverse/forward jump always seems to get it back into sync at least so far. Also, the em8300 (the mpeg chip on the DXR3/H+) seems capable of playing almost any mpeg that exists. The only mpeg's I've found that confused it even a little where some test mpegs I did with -I2 mode on mpeg2enc. -I0 or -I1 mpegs work perfectly though. It does, however, only play mpeg files, no avi, no mpeg4, now wmv, etc. Mplayer will autocovert in real time to mpeg for playing an avi/mpeg4/wmv/etc., but then that requires a healthy CPU to keep up with the load. I do recommend the card if you are looking for a very inexpensive hardware mpeg player with very good TV out signal quality. S-video from H+ to TV set generates an incredible picture. Rich __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
