>From: Gareth Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan? >Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:02:16 -0700 > >Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > >>On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, David Johnson wrote: >> >>>There is some seriously proprietary stuff with idct that for legal >>>reasons ATI wouldn't want to expose. >>> >> >>That is one of the most ridiculous statements I have heard. Substitute >>some equivalent terms in there: >> >>"There is some seriously proprietary stuff with the Pythagorean Theorem >>that for legal reasons ATI wouldn't want to expose." >> >>"There is some seriously proprietary stuff with the quadratic equation >>that for legal reasons ATI wouldn't want to expose." > >Okay then... > >I think what David's suggesting is that ATI's implementation of an iDCT >in hardware is pretty cool, and they're not about to go and tell >everyone how they did it. Last time I checked, they were the only >vendor to offer such a solution, and thus you may want to consider their >position on the matter.
Actually I think SiS offers an idct solution as well but beyond protecting intellectual property there are potential legal issues with exposing how ATI decodes copy righted, copy protected DVD. It may or may not be an issue but I understand why they don't want to necessarily play those games. There are similar issues with releasing TV Out information. David _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
