EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder

EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder

[chihchun]

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hi folks
  I'm working on EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder, There 
is only official binary driver on Sigma designs website. Is there any 
open source driver or non-official driver ?

Please cc: to me as I'm not on the list

-Rex

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Re: EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder

[Måns Rullgård]

<chihchun@kalug.linux.org.tw> writes:

>   I'm working on EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder, There 
> is only official binary driver on Sigma designs website. Is there any 
> open source driver or non-official driver ?

Sigma designs are known to not cooperate very well with open source
projects.  Actually, it's quite the contrary.  Some time ago they
released the XVID mpeg4 codec as their own, without source code.

I have heard of people trying to get documentation from them, but I
don't think anyone ever succeeded.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net

Re: EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder

[Rex Tsai]

Måns Rullgård wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to gmane.linux.kernel as well.
>>  I'm working on EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder, There 
>>is only official binary driver on Sigma designs website. Is there any 
>>open source driver or non-official driver ?
> 
> Sigma designs are known to not cooperate very well with open source
> projects.  Actually, it's quite the contrary.  Some time ago they
> released the XVID mpeg4 codec as their own, without source code.
> 
> I have heard of people trying to get documentation from them, but I
> don't think anyone ever succeeded.

   Somebody put the datasheet and drivers on his web site. 
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/Linux/iDVD3036/cdrom/Drivers/MPEG2-Em8400/
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/Linux/iDVD3036/cdrom/Document/MPEG2-Em8400/
-- 
-Rex, geek by nature linux by choice

Re: EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder

[joe briggs]

Those guys have been under intense pressure from M$ protecting the desktop 
multimedia market.  Each time their product managers announce some Linux 
support or product within the next quarter, it ends up being a year and only 
available for MS-whatever-the-hell-its-called-now.


On Tuesday 03 June 2003 04:47 am, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> <chihchun@kalug.linux.org.tw> writes:
> >   I'm working on EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder, There
> > is only official binary driver on Sigma designs website. Is there any
> > open source driver or non-official driver ?
>
> Sigma designs are known to not cooperate very well with open source
> projects.  Actually, it's quite the contrary.  Some time ago they
> released the XVID mpeg4 codec as their own, without source code.
>
> I have heard of people trying to get documentation from them, but I
> don't think anyone ever succeeded.

-- 
Joe Briggs
Briggs Media Systems
105 Burnsen Ave.
Manchester NH 01304 USA
TEL/FAX 603-232-3115 MOBILE 603-493-2386
www.briggsmedia.com

EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder

[Marcus Metzler]

chihchun@kalug.linux.org.tw writes:
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 > hi folks
 >   I'm working on EM840x REALmagic DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder, There 
 > is only official binary driver on Sigma designs website. Is there any 
 > open source driver or non-official driver ?
 > 
 > Please cc: to me as I'm not on the list
 > 

My brother and I wrote a driver for em8400 supporting the Linux DVB
API when we were at convergence (www.convergence.de), but they haven`t
released it. There was a short discussion about it on the linux-dvb
mailing list (see archives at www.linuxtv.org), but it looks like it
is not clear who they have to ask and what they have to do to release it.

Marcus

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