From: joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
To: mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:34:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306031034.23395.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xznkzlf90.fsf@zaphod.guide>
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.
--
Joe Briggs
Briggs Media Systems
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-03 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-03 8:19 chihchun
2003-06-03 8:47 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-06-03 10:51 ` Rex Tsai
2003-06-03 14:34 ` joe briggs [this message]
2003-06-03 8:54 ` Marcus Metzler
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