3D acceleration?? and nVidia TV-out 2

[wmg]

I have a couple of questions - firstly about 'Tuxracer'. I find that it plays with what looks like an amazingly slow frame rate - like 1fps or even slower which kinda makes it unplayable. Does anyone have any ideas why that might be? Would loading the nVidia reference drivers fix that? 3D Acceleration perhaps?

Also, I enjoy watching DVD movies. However, I utilise the TV-Out function on my Geforce 2 MX200 to watch them in full-screen on the television (from WindowsXPPro). Has anyone ever tried to get that functionality going under linux? If yes, I would be grateful for any pointers provided!

(Currently using RH8.0/Gnome2)

Thanks in advance!

Regards
wmg We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. [Robert Wilensky, 1997]

 

[NOPIK]

Go to

http://www.nvidia.com

and download driver for Linux (If you use last minute distribution or kernel - Mandrake 9, RedHat 8 etc. - you will probably need source packets. Don't forget to download readme file with the drivers - you will need instuctions, how to perform rpmbuild command).
TV Out poorly supported with Linux drivers at this moment, and will not provide same quality as in Windows (and, sometimes, will not work at all).
Try both MPlayer and Xine for DVD playback and make your choice.

 

[psychoplop]

I've also experienced some problems with my TV-out using linux. I only got black and white, no color.

Does anybody know how come?

Used Mandrake 8.2, a TNT2 Pro graphics card by butterfly with the original nvidia drivers from

http://www.nvidia.com.

Psycho

 

[wmg]

Hello psychoplop,

I had similar problems to start with (though in Windows). The problem ended up being because I was feeding video through my VCR into the TV. Once I had the video feed going directly into the TV the picture was fine.

In a word.....macrovision. It's a copy-protection scheme that adds extra stuff into the video signal which a TV ignores but anything else tries to compensate for causing all sorts of odd things to happen - like just b&w, or colour/b&w cycling, picture jumping etc etc.

HTH

regards
wmg We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. [Robert Wilensky, 1997]

 

[psychoplop]

Tnx wmg,

but I connected to my TV directly from my TV-out on the computer to the frontal A/V in from the TV. Maybe I should try S-video instead.

Psycho

 

[wmg]

Doh! Must definetely be something else then! Sorry!


What about (as well as trying s-video), perhaps checking the output format - PAL or NTSC - that might be something too.

wmg We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. [Robert Wilensky, 1997]

 

[psychoplop]

Hi,

tried a new little program I found on sourceforge. Worked very well. Had even twinview on PC and TV.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nv-tv-out/

Just untar the file (tar -xzvf FILENAME) and then run the program. No don't need to install anything. Just run the file (./nvtv).

This way the output was also full color.

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http://www.wannes.tk

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[wmg]

Awesome Psycho - thanks for that! We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. [Robert Wilensky, 1997]

 

[psychoplop]

No problem wmg, that's what this forum is all about.

if you have an S3 Savage graphics card, you might be interested in this feature for enabling your tv-out.

http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html

Psycho visit my website at

http://www.wannes.tk

for info on linux, webdesign and music