On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:59:36AM +0000, Stephen Davies wrote: > > I'd recommend that you look at MPlayer - a very versatile video > player. It can play to framebuffer for some card types at least. Indeed! > Don't see why you automatically eliminate playback via X. XVideo in the > newer versions brings great acceleration benefits. Remember X doesn't > have to mean a heavy environment like KDE or Gnome. That is all true. There are limitiations however. I have 3 displays on my machine, one to the TV and the other two to monitors. I would love to bind the two monitors together with xinerama and leave the TV display standalone, but alas XFree86 cannot do this. If I could do the TV-out via a framebuffer, that would solve this problem. Even running the TV-out on a separate X server is not an option for me because a) XFree86 seems to have problems running to active X servers on one machine and b) my TV-out is the 2nd head on a G400. I am looking to replace my G400's TV-out with something better. I wish the Gatos project's Radeon support included TV-out. They are pretty cheap cards. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
