[MPlayer-users] Xcard for hardware MPEG-4 playing

[Steven Adeff]

Their previous cards(the Hollywood and Hollywood Plus) required a group
of people to write drivers, the Hollywood Plus drivers have been in
production for about 2 years and they are just now reaching maturity.
Sigma Designs isn't very linux friendly.

the group working on the H+/dxr3 drivers can be found at

http://dxr3.sf.net

I have two of the H+ cards, they make a good product.

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 18:49, Brian Hall wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I looked for specs when the story first came out, didn't see any.
> Contact Sigma Designs and ask about Linux drivers, or getting the
> specifications so open source drivers can be created.
> 
> If the specs can be made available, I'd make a donation toward getting
> A'rpi one of these cards (say, $10 or so- got ten people who'd want
> it?)
> 
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 08:38:03PM -0000, Samuel Liddicott wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Christoph Lampert" <chl at math.uni-bonn.de>
> > Subject: [MPlayer-users] Xcard for hardware MPEG-4 playing
> > 
> > 
> > > I just saw the review of Sigma Design's Xcard at 
> > > tomsharedware. It claims to play MPEG-4 using
> > > EM8475 decoder chip, also MPEG-2 and MPEG-1.
> > > 
> > > http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/xcard.htm
> > > 
> > > Do you know anything about this? Maybe it would be
> > > possible for A'rpi or somebody else to get such 
> > > an card and implement drivers into MPlayer? 
> > 
> > I believe they accept donations.  You could buy 2, one
> > for A'rpi, then you might get it.
> 
> 
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