Re: Graphics Cards for Media PCs

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Gale wrote:

> Many cards do this - the simplest has a VGA and S-Video output.
Drivers then select what you want displayed on the S-Video output.
>
> Have a look at the Matrox or ATI cards.

Yeah, I've got an ATI Radeon 8500DV that I was using for capturing, but
it has a dvi out (with 15 pin vga convertor) and an interface box, which
has firewire in, composite, stereo and s-vid in, and composite, stereo
and s-vid out.

The default behaviour (IIRC, I might've had to tweak it to get it to do
this!) when playing anything in eg WMP was for the TV output to be full
screen - you could then minimize the media player and browse or whatever
while it was playing.

Cheers
--
Doogie


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