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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:39:01 -0800
From:      brian@worldcontrol.com
To:        Jakob Alvermark <jakob@teligent.se>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DVDs [and MPEG decoder hardware]
Message-ID:  <19990125133901.A1276@top.worldcontrol.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901251654050.6207-100000@dyn-66.teligent.se>; from Jakob Alvermark on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:00:00PM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901251654050.6207-100000@dyn-66.teligent.se>

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On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:00:00PM +0100, Jakob Alvermark wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> What about support for DVDs? I recently got myself a DVD-player. I noticed
> that it is detected under FreeBSD(3.0) as a CDROM. It works well as a
> CDROM, and I even mounted av DVD movie and was able to read the files off
> it. So that part seems well supported, but what about playing the movies?
> 
> I also have this REALMagic Hollywood plus mpeg card. Works fine under
> windows, but can it be supported under FreeBSD? I don't know much about
> developing drivers for FreeBSD, but if anybody is working on a driver, I
> would help as much as I can.

I wrote an MPEG driver for the OmniMedia P1S MPEG hardware decoder card.
(The card is no longer made, also only supports MPEG 1)

I'd be happy to port/write one for the REALMagic Hollyword Plus MPEG
card.  Can you get docs on how it works out of the manufacturer?

-- 
Brian Litzinger <brian@litzinger.com>

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