<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Brodbeck</b> <<a href="mailto:gull@gull.us">gull@gull.us</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Henderson wrote:<br>> So my question is this.<br>> Is a P3 600 fast enough to run a V.20 frontend with open GL?<br><br>Well, here's an "it works for me" type response. I was recently playing<br>with a P3 500 set up as a front end -- an old Dell Dimension XPS T500,
<br>running SuSE Linux. It seemed to work fine, at least for analog TV<br>playback at 480x480. However, two caveats:<br><br>- I haven't tested it very thoroughly, just watched a few hours of TV on it.<br>- I'm not using OpenGL
<br><br>My plan is to pick up a card with TV out, when I see a good deal on one,<br>and use it as a remote front end for the bedroom TV.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>Well i guess its better than i no. thanks for repying.
<br>so i guess it does stand a chance, if it takes a AGP card. <br>But in the end i am going to get it for nothing, so i bit of playing around wont cost me that much.<br><br>on the TV-Out front, I found this in australia.
<br><a href="http://www.jaycar.com.au">www.jaycar.com.au</a> and enter product no. JX4870<br><br>I think its called Grand hand view. basicly its just a vga to video/s-video converter.<br>the qualitiy over just rca video is acceptable, i have not tested s-video as i dont have a tv that supports it.
<br>the wife thinks the quality is good enough and the price is hard to beat. $40 AUS ( $30 on special, which ended up beaing $25 and the box was crushed)<br><br>CH<br><br>