Damian G wrote: >On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:15:38 +0530 >"L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can >>be connected to TV >> >> > > >uhm.. you mean you need a program that plays a movie thru the TV output? > >i don't have such video card, so i might be wrong, but AFAIK MPlayer can do this >as well. > >just to make sure, take a brief look at www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS > > > >Damian > My Son in law and I have been working on getting our geforce3 TVout to work without much success, you are going to need the Nvidia drivers for a start,in addition there are at least three types of tvout versions of geforce3, some come with silutaneous monitor and TV display, and some(in Linux) cannot do simultaneous , and have to have the monitor off while the TV is in use and , it is further complicated because the screen resolutions for TVout is relatively low , and I for one, would not wish to have my monitor screen resolutions compromised to enable me to have a working TV output, and so the need is to set up two seperate Xwindows screen outputs one to display the monitor, the other to go via tvout to the TV, these (in the Windblows versions) are simultaniously displayed.So far we cannot get even anything in mandrake to display to the tv at all. It's complicated. I guess we will have to wait on the experts.
After you get the dual output working it's just a question of using whichever app suits your needs. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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