From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Nov 8 17:27: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6980A1523D for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA91922; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199911090125.RAA91922@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: The Utz Family Cc: Jon Smith , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sigma Designs pleads impossible :( In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Nov 1999 17:19:33 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 17:25:39 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > that's probably the sticking point, they may have not even wrote it > themselves, they may have licensed something from somebody else who may be > very unwilling to have there bread and butter IP open-sourced! > I am not so sure because most likely most of the processing is being done in hardware. The problem is we don't know what Sigma Designs is having problems with . My wild guess is that there is no DirectX counterpart in Unix so it makes it kind of hard for instance to do yuv display with a decent frame rate. Cheers -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message