Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 21:07:19 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? Message-ID: <199705170407.VAA08816@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 May 1997 20:44:05 PDT." <21299.863840645@time.cdrom.com>
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>From The Desk Of "Jordan K. Hubbard" : > > Let me make it plain . I can't tell you because along the way I signed > > an NDA with Omnimedia . Now if you talk nicely to Brian Litzinger he > ^^^^^^^^^ > > Argh. So we're back to hardware assist again? I guess we've passed The answer is that you don't need hardware assist now days. The way to bypass the Philips Dragonian licensing is to ask Brian to write a library api for the code he has to decode CDI and VideoCD. Once that such a library starts streaming an MPEG system stream you can feed it to anything a file for instance or have a program such as mtv play it back. Currently, mtv does not have such a hook however it should not be hard at all for the author to implement. Amancio > what can be reasonably discussed in such an oblique fashion so I'll > just go away now with the conclusion that no, it can't be done and > maybe if you had Amancio's Special Secret Setup you could do it but we > don't so we can't. :-) > > Either that or we've hit the language barrier again, I don't know > which. All I *do* know is that I'm now more confused about this than > when we started, so I'll quit while I'm behind and put all these > stupid video CDs back on the shelf, to wait for DVD. ;-) > > Jordan
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