<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 20 Mar 2007, at 06:16, Csillag Kristof wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT size="2"><BR style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">So, what hardware does one buy, if he needs TV-out, but he does not want to use</SPAN><BR style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">proprietary software? Intel, ati and nvidia seem to be out.</SPAN><BR style="font-size: 10px; "></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>The best TV output support hands down on linux is achieved using a Matrox G550 with DirectFB. It support field accurate interlaced output.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you need hardware assisted decoding there's some new support for VIA unichrome hardware, see eg. <A href="http://www.courville.org/mediawiki/index.php/CLE266_MPEG_decoding">http://www.courville.org/mediawiki/index.php/CLE266_MPEG_decoding</A> . Fields accurate decoding is coming to this chipset eventually. This is a motherboard integrated solution however, so might not fit your requirements.</DIV><DIV> <BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Torgeir Veimo</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:torgeir@pobox.com">torgeir@pobox.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>