The G400 is superior in terms of linux support and TV output to the 550 - specs and tech docs on the 450 and pretty much everything after are thin on the ground.
Color can be adjusted - do a google for "matroxset" - there's a few decent tech docs about tv out. One thing tho is that as far as I know only directfb will give you native NTSC. I think for PAL (as in Oz) resolutions you can get that via X. On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:25:15 +1100, "Matt McLeod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Victor Putz wrote: > > One thing I've heard is that the TV-out-enabled second display on the G400 > > is "unaccelerated", whatever that means (not sure if it meant "no overlay > > support", "no xv support", what). I'm using the freevo for recording, > > playback, and Mame under X--is the G400 unimpaired with all these? > > It's expressed a little confusingly. The G400 has two "heads", which are > not actually associated with the physical connectors. The second "head" > is indeed unaccelerated, and you probably don't want to use it unless > you have to. > > What you do is display to the first "head", but associated that with > the second connector. You do this using the "matroxset" tool. > > > Also--and this is fairly important to me--is the TV-out on the G400 > > adjustable in terms of saturation/color balance/etc? > > I'm not sure. I found that mine looked pretty much right out of > the box, but my vision isn't so great... > > > Thanks; I appreciate the help. All things considered, setting up the > > video for the Freevo is fairly confusing (X11? dxr3? Framebuffer?) even > > without the driver issues. > > The thing to know is that Freevo uses SDL. Anything that SDL supports, > Freevo supports. > > If G450 support has improved since I looked at it a year or so ago > (at the time all the docs pretty much said that support wasn't ready > for real use yet) then you may find it simpler to grab one of those. > The cables for them are at least readily available. > > -- > "Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and > lock > phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room > three." > -- Robert > Billing > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
