Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:17:27 -0500 From: Nick Poolos <poolos@net.ohio-state.edu> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sigma Designs pleads impossible :( Message-ID: <19991110131727.C5419@phooka.net.ohio.state.edu> In-Reply-To: <382828F3.FB83AD2F@ameslab.gov>; from Chris Csanady on Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:00:19AM -0600 References: <199911082257.OAA90607@rah.star-gate.com> <382828F3.FB83AD2F@ameslab.gov>
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I talked with them at length last spring. The jist of the problem for what I could figure out was that they did the DVD auth and decrypt in software. Thus the em8300 just took in a raw MPEG stream. So a sugesstion would be to ask them for the specs to only support MPEG 1 and 2 streams. Don't even mention the DVD stuff. Then look at using the css-auth for the Linux folks to get the MPEG 2 stream from the DVD drive. They are not will and even able to tell you how to do the DVD access because of the stupid (IMHO) DVD Consortium policy of security through secrecy. I am willing to work on this with other people. I am working on a Linux project at the moment but I can find some time if this means I can finally get Windows out of my house. -- Nick Poolos poolos@net.ohio-state.edu * Chris Csanady (cc@137.org) [991109 09:01]: > Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > > > > > With regard to using the Hollywood Plus under NON-Windows environments, I > > > finally got Sigma Designs to say the following: > > > > > > Hi, > > > Our engineers were working on it, after many unsuccessful trials they found > > > out that it is not possible to use the EM8300 chip for that purpose. > > > Sorry but that is not possible. > > > Thank you, > > > mc > > > > > > I would call that pretty well as defective as a WIN-modem. > > > > What is em8300 chip and are they any pointers to a datasheet? > > In my opinion, their cards suck. I actually tried one out, but you can't run > it at even a moderate resolution without serious video degredation. Even > with good cables, I think the pass through solution is not acceptable. > > Unless you like to run at 800x600 or less, you will probably want to purchase > a graphics card with an integrated dvd decoder instead. I think it would be > much more worthwhile to support these.. > > Chris > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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