Messages in this thread |  | | From | joe briggs <> | Subject | Re: EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:34:23 -0400 |
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Those guys have been under intense pressure from M$ protecting the desktop multimedia market. Each time their product managers announce some Linux support or product within the next quarter, it ends up being a year and only available for MS-whatever-the-hell-its-called-now.
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 04:47 am, Måns Rullgård wrote: > <chihchun@kalug.linux.org.tw> writes: > > I'm working on EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder, There > > is only official binary driver on Sigma designs website. Is there any > > open source driver or non-official driver ? > > Sigma designs are known to not cooperate very well with open source > projects. Actually, it's quite the contrary. Some time ago they > released the XVID mpeg4 codec as their own, without source code. > > I have heard of people trying to get documentation from them, but I > don't think anyone ever succeeded.
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