[plug] Mpeg card under Linux

[Troy Otter]

> Hello,
>
> I'm sitting here looking at a mpeg card that I bought a few years ago
> but never really used. It says it's a REALmagic MPEG2/DVD decoder
> (Videologic) and has Stereo out / S/P Diff out (?) / TV out, VGA out,
> and VGA in.
>
> Anyway what I would like to know is if I can use this card for TV out
> generally. Or if the TV out only works when it's decoding a DVD or other
> mpeg.
>
> So can I have my X11/KDE session output to a TV screen using this card?
>

I don't know if it is possible to output an X11 session through the
REALmagic DVD decoder, I think it needs an MPEG source. You could try
looking at the DXR3 sourceforge page which has the Linux drivers for the
card

http://dxr3.sourceforge.net

Troy.