Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 1999 16:29:09 -0500 (EST) | | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | | Subject | Re: SBLive driver source - Dxr2/3 |
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > when I tried it in my NT SMP box... resource contention anyone? Anyways, > > Sigma has actually said they are producing Linux drivers for it (in fact > > the slashdot article on DVD when CSS decryption was cracked has a reply > > from Sigma posted that states just this). My guess is the drivers will > > be binary only though so I guess they really won't exist as far as I > > care. > > The DVD licensees are under a lot of pressure to play very safe. The fine > is about $1m if their stuff is broken. The Sigma board apparently does > CSS in software so they have their butts to cover. Hopefully they can > manage to at least do open source driver , binary only player.
No, this is silly. They should produce a player which only plays unencrypted titles (they are out there) and we use our CSS code to do the decryption as a seperate package (prehaps transpartnly using NBD)
> > Livid I believe has docs for some of the Zoran based DVD cards (anyone > > know which cards those are?) so that's probably the way to go if cards > > are any good. > > The Zoran has hardware CSS which does make vendor life easier although it > may limit your ability to play region locked DVD's
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