A VCR or dvd player's tv out is hardly plug and play... thousands of engineer hours went into making that device work the way it does for you.
if you want a tivo to be plug and play, you need to pay someone to make it work that way for you... just like you did for your VCR and DVD. now.. here's the other side of the coin. there ARE some integrated motherboard's designed for multimedia use in a home stereo/theatre environment. the DCT allwell boxes will do framebuffer to TV out without configuration. BUT you need to do configuration to activate the mpeg playback acceleration... and they are more expensive and low power. I guess it comes down to one thing. all of us are making a computer do something it was not designed to do. and when you do that you have to manually configure everything, or pay someone to do it for you like tivo,the vcr makers and the DVD player makers did. It's the nature of the beast. -----Original Message----- From: Niklas Brunlid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:53 AM To: Freevo users mailing list Subject: [Freevo-users] No-config TV-out card? Is there any card with a no-config TV out? When wrestling with my G200 yesterday I started thinking, and since other video equipment (DVD players, VCR:s etc) are basically plug'n'play, what's stopping a GFX card from doing the same? I.e. just outputting a signal that's identical to a standard broadcast or composite/svhs one from other equipment, with correct levels for brightness/saturation etc, and overscan, and... Is it simply because computers have a hard time understanding interlacing? Or can cards already do this (like, say, G200/G400 on DirectFB), and if so, am I just ranting? =) / Niklas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
