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Nvidia Drivers Enforce Macrovision's Rules

Posted by michael on from the you-lose dept.

Ant writes "According to 'Nvidia Macrovision DVD-TV rules forced on consumers', Nvidia drivers 41.09 and onwards include 'stringent checks' to comply with Macrovision requirements. That could mean if you have a TV encoder that does not support Macrovision, you may well get an error message depending on what DVD software player you are using, the company has said."

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  1. ATI 4 life! by dotz · · Score: 2, Troll

    I have used a cheap NVidia Riva TNT since about 2 years; Linux drivers were buggy and hanged the machine from time to time; same for FreeBSD drivers - they made machine unstable.

    As I've bought a bigger CRT display (21'), it came out, that there is some "ghosting" effect on that cheap NVidia, and I need to replace it with something better, just because my cheap clone was based on the hardware unsuitable for big displays. I have heard, that ATI somehow "supports" opensource communities - or at least gives them more information, than NVidia team.

    I've bought Radeon 9200 and tried FreeBSD's 4.9 DRI + XFree86 4.3.0 drivers with it.

    I was stunned. Everything worked as expected, no problems at all, no hangs, no sudden reboots, no nothing.

    Of cource, NVidia is making some progress in the drivers stability; also, their equipment for sure gets better each day - but I was so shocked with the stability & ease of setup of opensource ATI drivers, that I am not going to buy/recommend any other graphics cards.

    1. Re:ATI 4 life! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Troll

      I drove a 79 Chevette for years, it was horrible. It was rusty, kept stalling and burned oil.

      I replaced it with a 2004 VW Jetta.
      I was stunned.

      Everything worked as expected, no problems at all, no hangs, no sudden reboots, no nothing.

      At least try and compare recent video cards.

  2. Re:This has been here for a while by bluewarp · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thankfully I didn't want to spend the money on DVDIdle, so I purchased a new Radeon when I last attempted to play a DVD on my GeForce4.