From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Mar 14 16:17: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from grizz.avalon.net (grizz.avalon.net [204.71.107.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9165637B809 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:16:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmf@iabears.org) Received: from [24.4.166.220] (c950997-a.iowact1.ia.home.com [24.4.166.220]) by grizz.avalon.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA13999; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:16:33 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: cmf@mail.iabears.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:16:30 -0600 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" From: Carl Fongheiser Subject: Re: Creative DVD Decoder (CT1765/LS220) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Anyone have one of these things? The Linux guys at >'opensource.creative.com' have a DXR2 driver but the CT1765/LS220 board >looks somewhat nicer. There is a really nasty MSWORD databook on the chip >and a copy of the Windows driver floating around as a reference. > >What sort of interface should a driver for one of these boards present to >the system? Should we just be able to blast an MPEG video stream at >/dev/mpeg0 and have it work? How should the video/audio controls be >presented? I suspect that one could abuse the device into pretending to >be a sound card. I've got one of the CT1765 boards. Perhaps you could point me at these references? If it doesn't look too horrible, I'd make a stab at it. Alternatively, I wouldn't be averse to sending my board to someone more capable (or motivated) -- my DVD-ROM drive is currently in a Windows machine with a perfectly capable software decoder. Carl Fongheiser cmf@iabears.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message