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....
TV-Server seems to be using Sigma em8500 for their product line so it seems
it must be programmable fairly openly. Very nice it seems to do divx /
xvid. The MP100-N (