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From: joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
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Subject: Re: EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:34:23 -0400
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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, M?ns Rullg?rd 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.

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Joe Briggs
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