Last I was browsing creative.com (looking for tech info on an OEM sound card ALSA doesn't like) I blundered into a CVS repository of a driver for their Dxr2 decoder kit. It's at opensource.creative.com, and it looks fairly spiffy from what I know about DVD (nothing).
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, aphro wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote: > > dave >I can get a DVD player pretty cheap. Is there any point in doing so > when > dave >all my machines run non-Winblows? I don't keep up with the DVD camp, so > dave >could those of you that do enlighten me? > > xmovie, see www.freshmeat.net claims to be able to play DVDs. the source > is available but only the binaries have the encryption code in it. i dont > know if it uses decss(?) or not, if its not available lemme know i can > send it to u. available in glibc2.1 only i believe. it crashed on both > my debian 2.1 systems but ran ok on my mandrake system(dont have a dvd to > test but the program loaded) > > i emailed the author about a binary for glibc2.0 but he hasnt replied > yet(~3 weeks ago) > > btw this is a software-only decoder i believe, you need a powerful(really > powerful) machine to run it on, say 450-500mhz or better. it is > multithreaded so dual cpus really scream according to the www page. he > tested it on a dual celeron 500 i think(i run dual celeron 466) > > nate > > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ > Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ > Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ > Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ > -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > 8:52am up 173 days, 21:06, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.02, 1.04 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >