9fans archive / 1996 / 03 / 94 / prev From: Eran Gabber eran@res... Subject: a driver for MPEG-1 playback card is available Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:19:49 -0500 A driver for Talisman XL MPEG-1 playback card is available. The driver was written by Eran Gabber of the Information Systems Research Department at Bell Labs. It is derived from a FreeBSD driver by Brian E. Litzinger <brian@Med...>. Talisman XL is a hardware MPEG-1 playback card for ISA bus. It displays full motion video in a VGA window and/or generates NTSC signal. In particular, MPEG decoding, picture resizing and video overlay are all done in hardware. However, it doesn't use DMA due to its complex architecture. The driver is placed in the public domain. It can be freely distributed, provided the copyright and these terms are retained, in this and all derived works. The driver is provided AS-IS, without any warranty. The driver is NOT a part of the Plan9 distribution. To install the driver, you should modify two kernel source files (clock.c and fns.h). This means that you will have to take some care in applying future patches to these source files. See the installation instructions. The driver was tested on Globalyst 630 PCs (100MHz and 120MHz) and on a Micron Electronics Millennia (133MHz Pentium) running Plan9. The driver is available from <http://cm.bell-labs.com/is/what/mpeg-driver>. This page also points at a copyright disclaimer and installation instructions. Please read both carefully. Please send me your bug reports, comments, and suggestions. If you use the driver, please send me a note. I don't promise to support this driver, but I will do my best... Eran Gabber Eran Gabber E-mail: eran@bel... Bell Labs, Room MH 2C-234A http://cm.bell-labs.com/is/who/eran 600 Mountain Avenue Phone: 1-908-582-4354 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Fax: 1-908-582-5809