Decent video card?

[Rich Birch]

Yes I have Xfree86 4.1. DVDs are watchable but still jerk a bit even with
Xvideo

Cheers


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc ARIBERTI" <marcari at via.ecp.fr>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: Decent video card?


> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001, Rich Birch wrote:
> > I have a voodoo 3 2000 which tends to jerk every second or two, and by
the
> > sounds of it it's because of the tdfx drivers. I was wondering what card
I
> > should be looking to purchase in order to get a smooth performance. I
have a
> > PIII 500 with 384MB, and redhat 7.1. What cards have people got that
give
> > satisfactory performances on a similar spec machine?
>
> Which version of XFree have you got ?
> I advise you to get Xfree 4.1 because it implements Xvideo for the
> Voodoo3, and the performances are greatly improved.
>
> Matrox cards (G400 for example) are also very well supported under
> linux and performances with vlc are very good.
>
> --
> Marc ARIBERTI
> marcari at via.ecp.fr
>
>
>