[mpeg2] Re: Driver project: a new 4-channel MPEG decoder card

[Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>]

Allan Jacobsen wrote:
> 
> Warren Young wrote:
> >
> > I said that Sigma already has a 1-channel decoder with a Linux driver.
> 
> Well, the Sigma driver for their NetStream2000 card is
> not open source, and they will not release it outside
> their company. 

The _driver_ is open source.  Only the user-mode library necessary to
completely talk to the driver is closed.  I don't know how much of a
problem that is.  I suppose the user-mode side could have critical
things like microcode in it...  The user-mode library almost certainly
also has things like the CSS decryptor, but my projects don't need
De-CSS functionality.
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