VGA-TV converter - Puppy on a TV screen

[gabriel_007]

Hello
I've thought of buying a cable - TV-VGA converter (Euro ------ Vga/Jack), to watch some movies on a TV from my old computer. Is it going to work with puppy? Or there's no point in buying it?

My hardware:
celeron 700
324mb ram
matrox millenium 8mb
AK 66 C-MEDIA CMI8738 music card

I thought I'd ask before I spend money. Thank you very much in advance

[MU]

I have a external Trust Combi TV-PC Pop View.
The disadvantage:
the VGA-quality of the computer suffers from the additional piece in the chain.

You might get better results with TV-grabber cards.

The advantage of external one is, that you need no driver at all.
The picture is "on screen", not in a window.
So it even works, when the computer is powered off.
Disadvantage: you cannot record to harddisk with it, or make screenshots.

Older versions like mine only work at a small size (so that you can see most of your computer desktop) when the screen-resolution is set to 1024x768.
With higher resolutions you see nothing, it only works fullscreen then.
Newer models support higher resolutions, I think 1280x 1024, but I'm not shure.

Mark