From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue May 20 11:47:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA18889 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:47:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mpress.com (mpress.com [208.138.29.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA18882 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 7148 invoked by uid 100); 20 May 1997 18:47:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19970520114711.15527@mpress.com> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 11:47:11 -0700 From: Brian Litzinger To: Stephen Roome Cc: Joerg Wunsch , Charles Henrich , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? References: <19970519101441.GD00201@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Stephen Roome on Mon, May 19, 1997 at 12:56:39PM +0100 Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I then met with representatives of Philips and showed them the > > > cool things I could do with software. > > > > > > I asked if I could publish the source, they said no. More exactly > > > they said I couldn't publish anything that would "give away" the > > > definition of the format. 8-( On May 19, Stephen Roome wrote: > Stupid question perhaps, but I have a large green book here at work > titled CD-I - Fully Functional Specification. > > I didn't buy this, the company did. Assuming I read the specs and then > wrote a driver would I get sued or would the company that owned the specs > that I read get sued ? > > ... I'm in the US. So I have UScentric opinions. Does that go without saying 8-) That is _the_ book. It is generally a good idea to have the 'White Book' too. I suspect your company was required to sign a company-wide NDA which automatically includes everyone at the company. Now if you took it home, and your room-mate read it... However, your company might still be liable. I'm going to pursue the library api type functionality and a sample filter. I will also use CDD or tosha as the engine for reading the mode 2 form 2 sectors. Does CDD or tosha support the Plexor drive? -- Brian Litzinger brian@mediacity.com