Michael Holt wrote:

>On stardate Sat, 13 Apr 2002, civileme wrote:
>
>>To the original question:
>>
>>Either buy a decoder card (the Dxr2 from Creative is supported) or make 
>>a decision to be an outlaw and download the source for DeCSS and compile 
>>it as a plug-in for Xine or abandon the idea of playing encrypted DVDs.
>>
>>Civileme
>>
>
>Wouldn't you still need the software (DeCSS)?  I was under the impression 
>that the decoder board only took care of decoding the compression 
>algorithm, not the encryption.  
>
>tia, Mike
>
>
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Nope, the hardware does the job....  Actually the CSS portion is like 
about 1% of the effort of decoding, and the software to do it is like 
434 bytes.

Civileme




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