From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 25 11:35:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16582 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:35:58 -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 LAA16577 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:35:56 -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 TAA08272; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:34:57 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:34:57 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: David Greenman cc: Terry Lambert , 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: <199809251444.HAA24501@implode.root.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, David Greenman wrote: > >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. > > If that is true, then how is it that early Sony '7000 units had an internal > switch to disable region coding (i.e. play all regions)? Perhaps the Sony unit had a decoder built in? I might be wrong about this because I haven't read the spec. but I do know that Windows software DVD decoders can play DVDs from any region. -- 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