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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 06:38:20 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com, julian@whistle.com, dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Quake-client on FreeBSD-3.0 ??
Message-ID:  <199809250638.XAA14883@usr01.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809240831360.845-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Sep 24, 98 08:32:46 am

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> > 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 Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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