[vdr] Re: Hardware project: MPEG2 decoder with ethernet adapter

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 18:02, you wrote:
> Tobias Haustein wrote:

> From a quick look at sigma's homepage they seem much more "open" ....

The simple response to that is "No" :)

Sigma's "Open Source" MPEG4 software decoder is the Open Source XVID project 
with a Windows GUI slapped on, and XVID threatened them with legal action.

Suddenly Sigma were 'very proud to release their codec under the GPL' ...

And just /try/ to extract GPL drivers or microcode for their em8500 / X-Card 
which plays MPEG4 in hardware...

Drivers exist because hardware DVD players like the KiSS range are 
Linux-based, but everything's very closed source....

gdh



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