Well ok I think our mails are overlapping. :) Anyway I just bought a DXR2 card on Ebay for �2 (about $3.50 USD), so now I am a legal owner of a means to decode DVDs and AC3 in hardware and am not breaking the law whatsoever when I watch movies in Linux. I know I said I didn't particularly care if I was breaking the law, but it still doesn't mean that I liked it.
It doesn't solve your problems perhaps, but maybe the DXR3 route may be a way for you to go (although from what I can see, they seem to have been discontinued too). Still at �2.00 I personally haven't risked much, so maybe I can go to bed and sleep a little easier at night now. :) Regards, Q ----- Original Message ----- From: "Q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Legal issues > Ok maybe I'm not being very clear here, but first you say Hollwood cards can > do decoding and then they can't? > > What I mean is is the a hardware PCI card that can legally decode > *protected* DVDs in hardware? That is a card that decodes DVD videos > (Macrovision protected) in hardware, in just the way my stand alone consumer > electronics DVD player can? > > Q > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kim Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:30 PM > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Legal issues > > > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:15, Q wrote: > > > Well I asked about this on JustLinux.com. It was them that pointed out > the > > > Hollywood range of cards too me. But I guess they got it wrong too. > > > > > > Is there such a thing as a hardware decoder? It would be nice to be able > to > > > have something that decoded my DVDs in just the same way my stand alone > dvd > > > player did. I tried seaching Google on this but all I could find were > people > > > talking about the Hollywod cards and another similar (seemingly > > > discontinued) Creative card. > > > > There is something as a hardware decoder... The Hollywood cards. They do > > mpeg2 decoding in hardware. > > > > Your DVD player read a stream of data that happens to be mpeg2, and that > > can be passed onto your hardware decoder if you have one, or let > > software handle it. > > > > > > It seem a kind of obvious thing that there should be a card like this, > but > > > maybe there is a good reason there isn't? > > > > > > Q > > > > > > PS > > > > > > Thanks for stopping me from throwing good money away for nothing very > > > useful. :) > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > -- > > Kim Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > > > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 > > _______________________________________________ > > Freevo-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
