Oh yeah, forgot to include my computer's specs:
standard Gateway motherboard
PII 400MHz Processor
SoundBlaster 512K PCI card
1 AGP slot, several other open PCI slots
2 PCI 10/100 Ethernet cards (both work fine in Linux)
1 ISA generic 56K modem
128M PC100 SDRAM
10GB Maxtor HDD
DVD-ROM drive (I forget the manufacturer)
CD-RW drive (I forget the manufacturer of this one too)
3.5 Floppy
--- Caveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My roommate and I are trying to put together a multimedia server to
> output mp3's and DVD's to our TV/stereo set up. I'm trying to decide
> on
> which video card to use that contains as many options and features as
> possible, while at the same time being as low cost as possible. So
> far
> I've settled on two different cards:
>
> nVidia's (any brand will do) TNT2 M64 w/ TV-OUT (RCA style video
> connection) or,
> ATI's All-In-Wonder 128 Pro 32MB w/ S-VIDEO/Audio-OUT,
> S-VIDEO/Audio-IN
>
> Has anyone tried either of these cards in Linux to play DVD's through
> a
> TV (one without any S-Video connectors)? I know the ATI board comes
> with a connection adapter thing that will convert the S-Video out to
> an
> RCA-out for me, so I'm primarily concerned as to whether Mandrake 8.1
> can be used in conjunction with something like XMMS or other DVD
> players in Linux to pump the DVD's playing in my computer's DVD-ROM
> drive to my TV. I have a SB512 (I think) as the audio card, so sound
> shouldn't be a problem at all. I would just rather be using Linux to
> run this multimedia server box versus a BSOD-prone Win98 install. ;)
>
>
>
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