16 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-currentRe: Quake-client on FreeBSD-3.0 ?? | From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Сергей Осокин | Sep 23, 1998 3:34 am | |
| Dom Mitchell | Sep 23, 1998 12:54 pm | |
| Amancio Hasty | Sep 23, 1998 2:07 pm | |
| Julian Elischer | Sep 23, 1998 2:34 pm | |
| Amancio Hasty | Sep 23, 1998 3:23 pm | |
| bri...@worldcontrol.com | Sep 23, 1998 3:24 pm | |
| Daniel O'Connor | Sep 23, 1998 5:33 pm | |
| Doug Rabson | Sep 24, 1998 12:32 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Sep 24, 1998 11:37 pm | |
| Doug Rabson | Sep 25, 1998 1:51 am | |
| David Greenman | Sep 25, 1998 7:44 am | |
| Doug Rabson | Sep 25, 1998 11:34 am | |
| Charles M. Hannum | Sep 25, 1998 12:37 pm | |
| Andre Oppermann | Sep 25, 1998 12:58 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Sep 25, 1998 2:33 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Sep 25, 1998 2:38 pm |
| Subject: | Re: Quake-client on FreeBSD-3.0 ?? | |
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| From: | Doug Rabson (df...@nlsystems.com) | |
| Date: | Sep 25, 1998 11:34:36 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-current | |
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, David Greenman wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:
I doubt that any of the guys have support for DVD :( Bunch of new stuff is coming out on the market so it is the usual story locate a friendly chip manufacturer with decent documentation for the hardware. S3 Savage comes to mind however I dont know that much about it so far.
With modern processors, software decoding of DVD is faster and more flexible. Unfortunately the spec is under NDA partly because of the insane region coding scheme that the movie studios forced on us.
It's OK; if you follow the DVD specific lists, then you know how to change the region code on most avaiable hardware. If your hardware doesn't support this, well, shame on you...
Terry.. The region code is a particular encryption of the data on the disk. The various wirehead tricks for hacking players are irrelavent to a software DVD decoder. You need the right encryption keys from the spec document to get the data and to get the spec you need to sign an NDA and hand over $5000 to Toshiba.
If that is true, then how is it that early Sony '7000 units had an internal switch to disable region coding (i.e. play all regions)?
Perhaps the Sony unit had a decoder built in? I might be wrong about this because I haven't read the spec. but I do know that Windows software DVD decoders can play DVDs from any region.
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