[Gllug] Hardware v. Software CODECS?

[Richard Turner]

On Wednesday 17 Mar 2004 2:52 pm, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > IIRC you have to route the AGP output into the DXR3 to make things
> > work properly.  I suspect this is at least in part something to do with
> > DVD copy protection (as if anyone would bother ripping a DVD movie onto
> > VHS these days!)
>
> Nope, you can go straight to TV-out.  The VGA loop thing is just so
> you can output to a computer monitor -- it switches off the VGA and
> switches in its output.  Much like the early Voodoo cards used to.

Yep, you're quite right - that was it :o)  'Course, my computer was in my 
bedroom at the time and my TV in there's smaller than my monitor so I was 
watching DVDs through my monitor anyway...

Richard.
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