Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

[Laurent de Segur <ldesegur@mac.com>]

Andrew, 

ATI writes all their drivers for Windoz and the Mac internally. I guess
that's why it took so long for MacOS X to be able to play DVDs.
Cheers,

Laurent

> From: Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 01:40:43 -0700
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
> Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> 
> Unfortunately, those aren't the only bastards skulking about.  Let's
> not get started about the MPAA or the RIAA.  But the documentation
> for the parts of the hardware from ATI had to be available to
> someone, because even Apple was able to write software for it.  OK,
> stop laughing, I was just kidding.  Actually, it is more likely that
> a library was provided by the company that designed the cell that
> ATI used, and ATI is contractually not able to release any
> documentation, and may not even have any documentation for
> programmers.  Another possibility is that a company wrote the
> software for ATI, and got it into the contract that they not release
> the documentation for how to program that part of the hardware.
> When you remember that the sellers of DVD playing software AND the
> manufacturers of DVD drives both pay a per unit fee to the MPAA, it
> is not hard to imagine the repressive contractual arrangements that
> may be in ATI's way.
> 
> a
> 
> 
> Laurent de Segur wrote:
>> 
>> You should show the example by including the decss code that now ships
>> standard with vlc into the debian package.
>> 
>> Right now, to be able to play commercial DVDs I need to get the decss module
>> from the vlc main site and install it on top of the stripped down version
>> that's available on debian servers.
>> 
>> LdS
>> 
>>> From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
>>> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:30:01 -0500
>>> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>>> Subject: Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
>>> Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>>> 
>>> Fuck those Nazi bastards at Macrovision!  Stand up for your rights to
>>> view multimedia products you own on equipment you own!
>> 
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