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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:06:19 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Creative Labs PC-DVD Encore 5X and FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <1312.912063979@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 08:56:46 %2B0200." <199811260656.IAA49417@greenpeace.grondar.za> 

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> "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > This is Creative's latest DVD product, basically an ATAPI DVD drive
> > and a controller card with video pass-through which does the MPEG
> > decoding in hardware.  It is support for this card which we need if
> > we're going to be able to watch DVD movies in an X Window (naturally
> > an issue of CRITICAL IMPORTANCE to all of us! :-) and if anyone would
> > be interested in working on this, let me know and I'll make sure that
> > the appropriate box of hardware goes sailing through your living room
> > window just behind the attached brick. :-)
> 
> Aren't CL as sticky as hell about releasing programming info?

They've gotten better about it.  Anyone needing a contact at Creative
Labs for this can contact me - I don't want to post his details to
this list for obvious reasons, but I have the card from one of their
senior engineers right here in front of me and his promise to work
with us on issues like this in the future.

- Jordan

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