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<P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.4>2.3.1.2.4. ATI cards</A></B></P>

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<LI>The <A HREF="http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos">GATOS driver</A> (which you should use) has VSYNC enabled by default. It means that decoding speed
(!) is synced to the monitor's refresh rate. If playing seems to be slow, try
disabling VSYNC somehow, or set refresh rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz.</LI>

<LI>Radeon VE - currently only XFree86 CVS has driver for this card, version
4.1.0 doesn't. And no TV out support. Of course with <B>MPlayer</B> you can
happily get <B>accelerated</B> display, with or without <B>TV output</B>, and
no libraries or X are needed. Read <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA driver</a> and <A

    (Back End Scaler, the YUV scaler on G200/G400/G450/G550 cards) doesn't work
    on it!  The windows driver somehow workarounds this, probably by using the
    3D engine to zoom, and the YUV framebuffer to display the zoomed
    image. If you really want to use X, use the <CODE>-vo x11 -fs -zoom</CODE>
    options, but it will be <B>SLOW</B>, and has <B>Macrovision</B> copyprotection
    enabled.</LI>
  <LI><B>Framebuffer</B>: using the <B>matroxfb modules</B> in the 2.4 kernels.
    2.2 kernels don't have the TVout feature in them, thus unusable for this.
    You have to enable ALL matroxfb-specific feature during compilation (except
    MultiHead), and compile them into <B>modules</B>!
    <UL>

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<P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.4>2.3.1.2.4. ATI cards</A></B></P>

<P>
<LI>The <A HREF="http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos">GATOS driver</A> (which you
should use, unless you have Rage128 or Radeon) has VSYNC enabled by default. It
means that decoding speed (!) is synced to the monitor's refresh rate. If
playing seems to be slow, try disabling VSYNC somehow, or set refresh rate to
n*(fps of the movie) Hz.</LI>

<LI>Radeon VE - currently only XFree86 CVS has driver for this card, version
4.1.0 doesn't. And no TV out support. Of course with <B>MPlayer</B> you can
happily get <B>accelerated</B> display, with or without <B>TV output</B>, and
no libraries or X are needed. Read <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA driver</a> and <A

    (Back End Scaler, the YUV scaler on G200/G400/G450/G550 cards) doesn't work
    on it!  The windows driver somehow workarounds this, probably by using the
    3D engine to zoom, and the YUV framebuffer to display the zoomed
    image. If you really want to use X, use the <CODE>-vo x11 -fs -zoom</CODE>
    options, but it will be <B>SLOW</B>, and has <B>Macrovision</B> copyprotection
    enabled (you can "workaround" Macrovision using
    <A HREF="http://avifile.sourceforge.net/mgamacro.pl">this</A> perl
    script.</LI>
  <LI><B>Framebuffer</B>: using the <B>matroxfb modules</B> in the 2.4 kernels.
    2.2 kernels don't have the TVout feature in them, thus unusable for this.
    You have to enable ALL matroxfb-specific feature during compilation (except
    MultiHead), and compile them into <B>modules</B>!
    <UL>