From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon May 19 01:38:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA10078 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 01:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA10072 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 01:38:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA13513; Mon, 19 May 1997 10:37:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03920; Mon, 19 May 1997 10:14:41 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970519101441.GD00201@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 10:14:41 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: brian@mpress.com (Brian Litzinger) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich), freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? References: <5liddk$prh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <199705162047.QAA05694@crh.cl.msu.edu> <19970518223426.63773@mpress.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970518223426.63773@mpress.com>; from Brian Litzinger on May 18, 1997 22:34:26 -0700 Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Litzinger wrote: > I then met with representatives of Philips and showed them the > cool things I could do with software. > > I asked if I could publish the source, they said no. More exactly > they said I couldn't publish anything that would "give away" the > definition of the format. 8-( You need an ambituous guy here in Europe. It is allowed for us to re-engineer some software if this is the only possible way to find about the interface description, and you can prove that you need it. (No, i'm not the guy for this. I have too little interest in multimedia stuff, and way too few time. It probably requires a student with too much time. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)