From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Mar 11 16: 4:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from fan.net.au (fan.net.au [203.20.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03EF14A09 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from q@fan.net.au) Received: from gromit.fan.net.au (gromit.fan.net.au [203.23.133.34]) by fan.net.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA24783; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:04:05 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:04:04 +1000 (EST) From: Q To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: ulf@Alameda.net, Ryan Dewalt , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creative Labs DVD Dxr2 In-Reply-To: <4323.921185684@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Thanks for the summary - that's quite good (though the situation you > paint a picture of is a little less so). I think the first place to > start is IS9660/UDF, and since my DVD drive now works with Soren's > latest ATAPI driver, I think I'll start poking around on > http://trylinux.com/projects/udf/ I haven't bothered reading about UDF yet. UDF has a freely available specification so it shouldn't be too difficult for someone to get functioning. I have concentrated on the Dxr2 board (because I have one), and the possibility of using it as a hardware MPEG-2 decoder which doesn't require CSS or UDF support to work. > I've also seen BETA (Linux) drivers for "the Dxr2 board", but I have > no idea how comprehensive or complete they are. Wasn't Bill Fenner > or somebody also working on such a thing for FreeBSD? I have seen the odd discussion about DVD support in the archives but I haven't actually seen anyone say they were working on it. I have spoken with Andrew Veliath (Linux driver author) and he has encountered the same problem with obtaining information about the ZiVA-DS chip. His driver currently only manipulates the video overlay hardware, the Auravision AnP-82 which has online documentation. So you can't really use it for much yet. He also has some patches for the Linux CD-ROM driver to support CSS key negotiation, although nothing uses it yet. (http://www.rpi.edu/~veliaa/linux-dvd/) Seeya...Q -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ / Quinton Dolan - q@fan.net.au __ __/ / / __/ / / Systems Administrator / __ / _/ / / Fast Access Network __/ __/ __/ ____/ / - / Gold Coast, QLD, Australia _______ / Ph: +61 7 5574 1050 \_\ SAGE-AU Member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message