I agree on the harware decoder.  I'd rather have that than a software
decoding engine anyway.  Has anyone here on the list been able to get DVD
movies up and running on the box yet?  A few months ago I looked at a lot of
info on it but never had the time to put into that project.  Too busy trying
to learn some other things...

Don


> On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:36:50AM -0700, Don Harrop wrote:
> > Does that mean the Linux will never legally be able to display DVD
movies?
>
> No.  For one thing, there are efforts to get drivers for hardware
> decoders written.  For another, most likely they only made it illegal
> to post the code on a web site.  It's probably not illegal to possess
> (just guessing...) and you can be sure it will be exchanged on more
> anonymous channels.
>
> The hardware decoder boards would be the way to go anyway, I think...
> less CPU cycles burned, for better multitasking.
>
> --
>   _______                   Shawn T. Rutledge / KB7PWD  ecloud@bigfoot.com
>  (_  | |_)          http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud  kb7pwd@kb7pwd.ampr.org
>  __) | | \________________________________________________________________
> Get money for spare CPU cycles at http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=5903
>
> ________________________________________________
> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't
post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail.
>
> Plug-discuss mailing list  -  Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>