From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 25 01:53:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28699 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28680 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA06793; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:51:53 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:51:53 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Terry Lambert cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, julian@whistle.com, dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quake-client on FreeBSD-3.0 ?? In-Reply-To: <199809250638.XAA14883@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I doubt that any of the guys have support for DVD :( > > > Bunch of new stuff is coming out on the market so it is the usual > > > story locate a friendly chip manufacturer with decent > > > documentation for the hardware. S3 Savage comes to mind however > > > I dont know that much about it so far. > > > > With modern processors, software decoding of DVD is faster and more > > flexible. Unfortunately the spec is under NDA partly because of the > > insane region coding scheme that the movie studios forced on us. > > It's OK; if you follow the DVD specific lists, then you know how > to change the region code on most avaiable hardware. If your > hardware doesn't support this, well, shame on you... Terry.. The region code is a particular encryption of the data on the disk. The various wirehead tricks for hacking players are irrelavent to a software DVD decoder. You need the right encryption keys from the spec document to get the data and to get the spec you need to sign an NDA and hand over $5000 to Toshiba. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message