Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations

[Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@purdue.edu>]

* Rog?rio Brito (rbrito@ime.usp.br) wrote:
> On Aug 20 2001, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
> >  Hi,
> > 
> > Did you by any chance get your G400 to play DVD or DIVX out of the
> > secondary head to a TV? If you did I would be very much interested
> > in hearing how you did that.
> 
> 	Unfortunately, my card is just a monohead with 16MB. But
> 	AFAIK, you wouldn't be able to, since the Linux drivers don't
> 	support that (I guess that this is due to the damn Macrovision
> 	rights).
> 
> 	I've tried something similar to that with my notebook, which
> 	has an ATI Mobility LT board with TV Out and while playing
> 	DivX in Windows to the TV was fine (it was something that I
> 	had captured from a VHS tape and it seemed like the tape),
> 	under Linux I can only get the text-mode to play right on the
> 	TV.
> 
> 
> 	[]s, Roger...

  Darn, I can get dualhead working, but nowhere on the web could I find
any info on how to send a videostream to the second head TV. Oh well,
it's a small setback.

  Alex.