Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:16:30 -0600 From: Carl Fongheiser <cmf@iabears.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative DVD Decoder (CT1765/LS220) Message-ID: <v0422080db4f485321354@[24.4.166.220]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003141642360.28645-100000@sasami.jurai.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003141642360.28645-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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>Anyone have one of these things? The Linux guys at >'opensource.creative.com' have a DXR2 driver but the CT1765/LS220 board >looks somewhat nicer. There is a really nasty MSWORD databook on the chip >and a copy of the Windows driver floating around as a reference. > >What sort of interface should a driver for one of these boards present to >the system? Should we just be able to blast an MPEG video stream at >/dev/mpeg0 and have it work? How should the video/audio controls be >presented? I suspect that one could abuse the device into pretending to >be a sound card. I've got one of the CT1765 boards. Perhaps you could point me at these references? If it doesn't look too horrible, I'd make a stab at it. Alternatively, I wouldn't be averse to sending my board to someone more capable (or motivated) -- my DVD-ROM drive is currently in a Windows machine with a perfectly capable software decoder. Carl Fongheiser cmf@iabears.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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