Nazdar!

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:14:33PM +0100, Daniel Smolik wrote:
> Peter Surda wrote:
> > I think you're better out buying a hardware converter, I think the thing is
> > called "scan converter". These things cost about 150$ and are usually
> > OS-independent.
> But it has ugly quality of picture. Matrox is the best but
> only the G400. G450 is not supported.
Actually I've been told by someone who has a scan converter (I don't have one
myself) that the quality is very good. It probably depends on the type. I can
only speak for voodoo 3500tv (pretty low quality) and r128 (pretty good
quality) from personal experience. 

I can't tell Matrox quality, I have never seen one myself so I can't compare.

As for CPU-usage, due to DMA-accelerated XvShmPutImage, r128 currently
surpasses every other card in linux, watching NTSC DVDs with SVideo TVout eats
only about 15% CPU (i.e.  85% CPU free) on my Duron650. And I'm not even using
hardware-accelerated idct or motion-estimation.

>                                                       Dan
Bye,

Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ICQ 10236103, +436505122023

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