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Re:AGP? by whoop · 2000-01-04 08:21 · Score: 2 · on Linux Kernel 2.2.14

For all of you that say AGP cards work in the kernel already, that's only half true. The Utah GLX has a kernel module that lets you use all the nifty fast memory transfers over the AGP interface. Sure the kernels can run AGP video cards, but this makes them much faster (or so I understand). The patch was already merged into the 2.3 kernels, but not the 2.2 ones. You can get it from the project's CVS server.

GLX project by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-03 17:49 · Score: 1 · on Category: Most Improved Open Source Project

I think the GLX project should be commended for the progress they've made in the past months.

Re:Some Rationale by 0xdeadbeef · 2000-01-03 00:07 · Score: 2 · on Slashdot is Giving Away $100,000

Oh man, that McCullagh guy is a jerk. I found the Livid archive at
http://livid.on.openprojects. net/pipermail/livid-dev/. You can see his posts in the Nove mber archive.

Re:Some Rationale by 0xdeadbeef · 2000-01-03 00:07 · Score: 2 · on Slashdot is Giving Away $100,000

Oh man, that McCullagh guy is a jerk. I found the Livid archive at
http://livid.on.openprojects. net/pipermail/livid-dev/. You can see his posts in the Nove mber archive.

Re:cool by Admiral+Burrito · 2000-01-02 14:16 · Score: 2 · on Open Source Elements of Unreal Tournament Released

now we just need DRI support

It is already possible to get direct rendering using Openprojects/Utah GLX. This works with XFree86 3.3.5 using the Matrox G200/G400 or ATI Rage Pro. It is seperate from the DRI that will be included in XFree86 4.0 but AFAIK offers the same performance benefits. It certainly makes Q3A run nicely, though I haven't attempted Unreal.

This is the chronology of DeCSS: by Booker · 2000-01-02 10:39 · Score: 2 · on ESR on the DVD Control Association

The original program was written for Windows. See this message. For the whole chronology, including how it got to Linux, take a look here .
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This is the chronology of DeCSS: by Booker · 2000-01-02 10:39 · Score: 2 · on ESR on the DVD Control Association

The original program was written for Windows. See this message. For the whole chronology, including how it got to Linux, take a look here .
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Re:First impressions by MrHat · 2000-01-01 17:13 · Score: 1 · on New XFree86 snapshot - 3.9.17

Is MGA support different from a direct-rendering GLX driver?

If it isn't, and you haven't checked it out yet, head over to http://glx.on.openprojects.net/ and grab the Utah GLX source out of CVS. The Matrox G400 OpenGL drivers are supposedly "at the level of the windows drivers" already.

OOPS - Trying Humpin list again by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-30 11:08 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Thu, Dec 30, 2:55am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

Re:Copying vs Decoding by Royster · 1999-12-29 09:09 · Score: 2 · on DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now

So the decrypting method is only needed to use the contents of a DVD, while copies can be made without understanding the contents of the data.

I've very concerned about this statement. It is my understanding from reading the livid-dev archives that the disk keys are stored on a sector that the hardware will not read until the CSS authentication process has been begun. See this message for example.

Based on this, I do not believe that it is possible to make a bit for bit copy of a DVD disk with standard hardware without a player key.

Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-29 06:42 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Today - Are You Ready to Rumble?

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Dec 29, 3:14pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

I'm not on that list of 70, so until I am... by BryanClark · 1999-12-28 04:47 · Score: 1 · on DVD CCA Applies for Restraining Order

a mirror of http://livid.on.openprojects.net's cvs of the linux dvd drivers is available via anonymous ftp at ftp://wodin.eburg.com/pub/cvs/dvd

My copy just arrived today by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-23 06:52 · Score: 0 · on Q3A for Linux Hitting Stores Today

Wow, it totally rocks on a G400!!

http://glx.on.openprojects.net/. A big thanks to johnc and everyone who worked on the G200/G400 GLX drivers!

Re:Runs Linux binaries faster than Linux? by mvw · 1999-12-21 15:04 · Score: 2 · on FreeBSD 3.4 released

Interesting, I would have expected both operating systems to perform similiar.

What graphics cards are they equipped with?

In case of Matrox G200/G400 you can try to build a recent glx version from openprojects.net yourself, as it is more advanced in respect to these cards than the version I based the FreeBSD port on. (Lack of a Matrox card and end-of-year-project-craze has prevented me from updating it yet).

Then there seems to be some sort of AGP support added to Linux in the meantime. Don't how know much impact it has there, however.

No DVD under Linux?!? by smash_phase · 1999-12-09 03:14 · Score: 1 · on Open Source Job at Creative Labs

Ever heard of Nist/Livid ?

No DVD under Linux, huh? Well than don't look at this sample , it might confince you otherwise... Also, never heard about the DXR2 drivers on the Creative Opensource site? Or that Sigma Designs is planning on giving their next Hollywood chip native Linux support?!

With those Windoze players, I always have to mess around with my display settings, if I want to watch DVD.. with Nist I just compiled it in.. no need to mess with that anymore..

Re:Excellent by Black+Parrot · 1999-12-04 02:41 · Score: 3 · on XFree86 Release Update: 4.0 in Q12000

For certain cards, you can get PDGood accelerated 3D under Linux now. See the Linux GLX site.

--
It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?

TNT2 or G400? by alisdair+mcdiarmid · 1999-11-25 04:00 · Score: 1 · on NVidia releasing OpenGL ICD by End of Year

I recently got a Matrox G400 to replace my old G200, since Matrox released full specifications, and the GLX project appeared to be going quite well. I was hoping that Quake2 would be more playable and I'd get >3fps in Q3Arena when it's released.

Instantly I was impressed with the 2D performance (everything just feels faster), but I can't get the GLX stuff to even compile, never mind run. It complained of a missing api1.c file, even though I think I'm sitting with current CVS updates from both Mesa and GLX.

Is it ever going to be released in binary form, working properly? Will it give decent Quaking performance? Or am I going to regret buying from Matrox when I could have got a TNT2 with full, working drivers, for less than I paid for my current card?

Re:Does anyone have this archived? by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-24 03:10 · Score: 0 · on FBI Shuts Down Website

You mean like this?

You're absolutely right... by Andrew+Cady · 1999-11-23 14:37 · Score: 1 · on FBI Shuts Down Website

Assuming the government did not threaten any sort of actual force, this is "only" a violation of the ethics of free speech, not the legality. The ISP in question has the right of free speech - they have the right not to publish information they don't want published. They have an ethical responsibility to continue publishing what they have been payed to publish, but not a legal one. (If they do have a legal one, it is contractual, not constitutional).

Still, ethical violations of free speech are always odious, whether by government or by business. Either way, it's an abuse of power that no person should have.

The solution to this, in case you were wondering, is the FREENET. The goal of freenet is to allow content distribution and access to be inexpensive and (optionally) anonymous. (Sorta like USEnet, but without requiring 6gb/day to serve. Freenet seeks to eliminate the slashdot effect as a barrier to free speech.) Essentially, censorship is made technologically impossible on the freenet, short of stopping people before they ever post.

Hopefully, all of the public information on the internet will be on something similar to freenet eventually. If it is, we won't ever see a story like this again.

yes, this is bullshit by Crow- · 1999-11-23 12:09 · Score: 1 · on VA Linux Systems Sends "The Letter"

yes, this is fucking bullshit,several people in debian received the letters for what? maintaing the latest app to come across freshmeat? Woah, now there is a major contribution. I am a debian developer myself, so no offense to them but why did they get chosen over any others, just because they had more uploads than another maintainer? Maybe us maintainers with few uploads didnt NEED to upload because we got our packages right the first time. Again, this is not directed at anyone but is just intended to point out the fucking idiot criteria VA used to select the people. I've worked hard keeping the GLX project(http://glx.on.openprojects.net) running over the past 6-7 months while maintaing packages for debian. And what do I get? not a damn thing.

Re:Publicity by Tarnar · 1999-11-21 03:57 · Score: 1 · on Quake III Arena Demo Test for Linux

Yes, but it is getting better by the day. And you missed ATI, who is one of the biggest OEM providers of graphics cards. ATI All-In-Wonders are very popular for their versatility (even if I wouldn't touch one with a 30 foot pole). Drivers are getting better by the day, just watch the glx-dev mailing list. In fact, wander over to the GLX site right now.

On another note, I'm glad to see the newest games hitting the Linux market. Kudos to id for Q3 and to Loki for all them sweet strategy games.

Re:I don't guess this is a misconfiguration... by Admiral+Burrito · 1999-11-20 11:31 · Score: 1 · on Quake III Arena Demo Test for Linux

I knew I forgot something... check URLs...

The correct URL for the opensource GLX project is http://glx.on.openprojects.NET

Re:I don't guess this is a misconfiguration... by bgdarnel · 1999-11-20 11:19 · Score: 2 · on Quake III Arena Demo Test for Linux

Check out this site for drivers. I also have a K6-2 300 with a G200, and I get more than 1fps, but not enough to be playable. I'm using the Debian-packaged version of the drivers, now horribly outdated (from august, iirc). I'll try compiling from the latest source and see how it turns out.

Re:rendering clusters? by m2 · 1999-11-17 21:36 · Score: 1 · on 3dfx Glide and DRI Open Sourced

If I were to add the patient skin with realistic semi-transparence and wanted to do functional animation as well, things bet much messier, and I (would) do that in pov... The problem then becomes, okay, everybody does it with clusters, but why? is it because 3D accelerated hardware is looked at the wrong way, or is it because this is not really the main focus (a.k.a games! :)

Well, there is people working on taking advantage of 3d hardware acceleration for computation, but for know, it's pretty much SGI related, because many things that could be called "high" end on the usual Intel world, is standard on SGIs, so, from the SGI user point of view, some of these things can be called "comodity" hardware (really fast buses, texture memory, and the extensions to support and take advantage of those)

A side note: for hardware accelerated opengl and computation, I use IDL on NT but am waiting for a comparable solution in Linux (yep, sure do!)

IDL is available for Linux. Real support for 3d hardware acceleration is on its way... /me is looking forward for the GLX for G400 support, Matrox provides real specs so real drivers can be developed.

Don't Use It: VA Are Control Freaks by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 06:04 · Score: 0 · on SourceForge Goes Public Beta

Oddly enough, I don't want to post this as myself, but if you go and look at the archives of the OpenProjects admin list, you'll see the real reason why VA dropped support for that and created SourceFrog: they're complete control freaks who can't stand anyone but their staff having root on a box that they provide, it seems.

There are real hosting projects (for software) or box sponsors (for large websites) out there if you're not willing to hand all your work over to the mercy of a private company. For example, OpenProjects Network is run by a deity of the small screen (lilo) in a truly open fashion.

And no, Mr Moderator, I'm not trolling. Check the sources: DiBona's message her e and lilo's startled response her e. You might like to get some idea about Chris DiBona's ego from the fact that his personal website is a Linux.Com "partner". I don't know of anyone else's personal site there.

Don't Use It: VA Are Control Freaks by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 06:04 · Score: 0 · on SourceForge Goes Public Beta

Oddly enough, I don't want to post this as myself, but if you go and look at the archives of the OpenProjects admin list, you'll see the real reason why VA dropped support for that and created SourceFrog: they're complete control freaks who can't stand anyone but their staff having root on a box that they provide, it seems.

There are real hosting projects (for software) or box sponsors (for large websites) out there if you're not willing to hand all your work over to the mercy of a private company. For example, OpenProjects Network is run by a deity of the small screen (lilo) in a truly open fashion.

And no, Mr Moderator, I'm not trolling. Check the sources: DiBona's message her e and lilo's startled response her e. You might like to get some idea about Chris DiBona's ego from the fact that his personal website is a Linux.Com "partner". I don't know of anyone else's personal site there.

Mirrors again ooops by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 02:40 · Score: 0 · on deCSS Listed On Download.com

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

Mirrors - Now more than 70!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 02:38 · Score: 1 · on deCSS Listed On Download.com

Oh yeah

Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Explanation on legality of this information:

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention

www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

UPDATE: Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

I have taken it upon myself to mirror the mirrors. So until such time as the hounds of hell come a-knocking at my door, I present for you this list:

Page last updated: Wed, Nov 17, 2:33pm EST

Current Mirrors
(Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience)

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

Re:DeCSS source (Linux version) by maroberts · 1999-11-16 17:09 · Score: 4 · on deCSS Listed On Download.com

...can be downloaded from the CVS server [instructions on the web site] at: http://livid.on.openprojects.net

Re:DVD under linux by regnits · 1999-11-15 06:51 · Score: 1 · on Activist Defends DVD Hack

The performance increase is actually more like 25-50% from the feedback I have gotten (I wrote some of the backend scaler code for the G200/G400).

The main part is that the driver relieves the X server from copying the data to the framebuffer on the graphics card and also handles scaling of the image. I have fullscreen DVD running as my desktop background with ~25fps (w/o sound) on my Celeron 400, and that's with a software mpeg2 player that is not very optimized. :-)

I think we will see some interesting stuff in the coming weeks...

Check out the LiViD homepage and the mailing list for more info.

Fredrik

Re:dxr2 drivers by Cramer · 1999-11-15 00:36 · Score: 1 · on Activist Defends DVD Hack

Actually, they "released" someone elses driver. They didn't write it and they gave no support to the person writing it. (This was argued on the LiVid mailing list.)

Don't forget about Open Source! by Kev+Vance · 1999-11-12 21:53 · Score: 4 · on Xi Announces Hardware Accelerated 3D X Server

Don't forget that we have an open source project that works right now. Accelerated GLX for XFree86 3.3.5 supports Matrox G200 and G400 as well as Riva TNT2 cards. Support for Rage Pro chipsets is on the way, too. So you might want to consider contributing some code to the project rather than shelling out for the new Xi server...

We're working on it.... by Sanity · 1999-11-11 21:23 · Score: 2 · on The BSA Going After IRC Warez Channels

Freenet is a system currently in development which will allow the distribution of information while providing anonymity to both information providers and consumers. It is designed in such a way that it is virtually impossible to remove a piece of information from the system provided anyone is actually interested in it (information that nobody cares about will be discarded by the system automatically). Further, the system operates in an anarchistic manner, there is no centralized control of any form capable of influencing how the system operates. Follow the link above to find out more, and if you can code in Java, your help would be appreciated.

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Email to the lawyers by ajs · 1999-11-09 01:34 · Score: 1 · on DVD Situation Takes New Turn

The email address of the lawyers in question has been post ed to the list as well.

Re:Killer? No. Competitor? Yes! by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-08 04:05 · Score: 0 · on Does ATi Have a GeForce 256 Killer?

As a Linux Advocate(TM), I have to ask: Does ATI provide specs and/or Linux drivers? NVidia does.

Yes, they do. See the GLX project (sorry, I don't have the link to the main page, just the ML archive). ATI and Matrox provided specs, and NVidia provided drivers.

So the ATI driver is sort of embryonic, the Matrox one is unstable but rapidly improving, and the Nvidia one is kinda stagnant.

Just get a Matrox Card by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-07 22:20 · Score: 0 · on Does ATi Have a GeForce 256 Killer?

Matrox is the only major gfx card company to come all out and support the open source development model. Nvidia have made only one obfuscated code release. G400 development is really moving along at a good pace ( WARP is in, AGP texturing is in, dual head is in the works)

GLX allows network-transparent 3D accelerated graphics - the G400 implementation is the most complete open source linux hardware-accelerated GLX module.

John Carmack is a big fan of the Matrox G400 linux stuff, and a regular poster on the mailing list.

I'm going to get a G400 MAX real soon now.

one thing though - has OpenGL/Mesa been extended with support for HW bump mapping yet? EMBM makes Descent 3 look absolutely cool.

UPDATE by nwetters · 1999-11-05 00:23 · Score: 1 · on Legal Actions Against Linux-DVD authors

Late st news

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Getting it And the Current Info... by Unknwn · 1999-11-05 00:19 · Score: 5 · on Legal Actions Against Linux-DVD authors

Well, the replies on livid-dev are just starting. As of right now, not much is known. According to Derek's most recent message, it "potentially violates the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988; Sectiond 296(1) and (2)". You can keep up with the discussion if you want at http://livid.on .openprojects.net/pipermail/livid-dev/1999-Novembe r/, which is the archive for the livid-dev mailing list.

Also, to get your own copy of the code, do the following for bash (*csh people, export your variables properly with setenv instead :)

$ export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.on.openprojects.ne t:/cvs/livid"
$ cvs -z3 co css-auth

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wired's coverage here is just silly by rillian · 1999-11-04 02:16 · Score: 1 · on Post-Hacked DVD: Where to Go?

I'm sorry, their spin on this really sucks. All of the articles they've done have been thoroughly hysterical. The "piracy" issue has been argued to death here and elsewhere with mp3's. DVD video is much the same.

It's hardly a surprise that the scrambler was broken. One of the things the author of the wired article keeps misrepresenting is that XING somehow "forgot to encrypt" their decryption key. The CSS license requires implementations to obfuscate the algorithm (this is security through obscurity, after all). This is what XING failed to do, which made dissassembly much easier. It's quite possible to obtain the keys from other players--it just takes more work. In any case, the scrambler quite weak and would have been broken anyway. In fact, Bruce Schneier mentions in this cryptogram that the DVD cipher was broken "within months of [its] disclosure." What's new here is public documentation, unencumbered by NDA, not that news the the algorithm is fundamentally flawed.

As this new article briefly mentions, many of us are working on this just so we can watch the damn movies we've bought. Please see the livid project for a good collection of current open source work in this direction. The list archives have some intelligent discussion of the CSS crack, including "That was too easy!" hypotheses for the conspiracy theorists. :)

There's still a lot of work to be done. We can unscramble encrypted movies now, but there's still the byzantine navigation file format to figure out...which actually seems to be a much harder problem.

No it doesn't by Sanity · 1999-11-02 19:22 · Score: 1 · on Australia - Censorship Overload

That whole thing about "the Internet routing around censorship" is not true. The Internet is probably more susceptable to censorship than any other communications medium in history. Email can be scanned automatically for words and phrases by even the poorest of governments, networks can be monitored to build up pictures of people's WWW surfing habits and thus make highly educated guesses about their politics and even their sexuality.

However, with the right technology, the Internet could route around censorship. Any interested should take a look at The Freenet Project.

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Fight censorship with technology by Sanity · 1999-11-02 18:53 · Score: 2 · on Australia - Censorship Overload

I would direct anyone interested in how censorship of the Internet can be prevented through technology to visit the Freenet homepage. Freenet is a system to allow the anonymous access and retrieval of information. It is being written in Java and will be released under the GPL. Java developers are currently needed to help with the project.

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Re:How about Hollywood+ ? by smash_phase · 1999-11-02 06:03 · Score: 2 · on Creative Labs GPLs dxr2 DVD Decoder Drivers

Read the true story over here.. the only thing with holding Enigma from opening up their sources is.. CVS!
http://l ivid.on.openprojects.net/pipermail/livid-dev/1999- August/000147.html
CVS is preventing them from releasing their hardware specs and Linux sources!

Newer version avaliable by Schemer · 1999-11-02 01:59 · Score: 4 · on Creative Labs GPLs dxr2 DVD Decoder Drivers

The version of the drivers on creative's web page aren't the most recent. The most recent version can be found here:

http://www.geocities.com/dxr2linux

Al so take a look at the developers message on the livid mailing list:

http ://livid.on.openprojects.net/pipermail/livid-dev/1 999-November/000770.html

000580.html by Anonymous Coward · 1999-10-31 04:57 · Score: 0 · on Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO

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I hate to be a party-pooper, but any dimwit can tell this came from NT, on VC++.. does the open source community have the right to use this code? And more importantly, even if we did, to bring up -another- old issue, is creating an open-sourced CSS cracking algorithm a wise idea? Those pesky moral issues aside, I must say, this is damn cool. :) Dave Houston "There's a spoon in this chili!" On 25 Oct 1999, Adam Pennington wrote: > If this is what I think this is, cool! Everything is now out in the > open to build a DVD player... At least one without menus... If I can > find the time, I will attempt the Linux port. >>> adam >>>> _______________________________________________ > Livid-dev maillist - Livid-dev@livid.on.openprojects.net > http://livid.on.openpro jects.net/mailman/listinfo/livid-dev >

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I hate to be a party-pooper, but any dimwit can tell this came from NT, on VC++.. does the open source community have the right to use this code? And more importantly, even if we did, to bring up -another- old issue, is creating an open-sourced CSS cracking algorithm a wise idea? Those pesky moral issues aside, I must say, this is damn cool. :) Dave Houston "There's a spoon in this chili!" On 25 Oct 1999, Adam Pennington wrote: > If this is what I think this is, cool! Everything is now out in the > open to build a DVD player... At least one without menus... If I can > find the time, I will attempt the Linux port. >>> adam >>>> _______________________________________________ > Livid-dev maillist - Livid-dev@livid.on.openprojects.net > http://livid.on.openpro jects.net/mailman/listinfo/livid-dev >

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Re: mfrs *CAN'T* be locked out! by Anonymous Coward · 1999-10-30 18:47 · Score: 5 · on Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO

Actually 3 cryptoanalytical attacs against the various CSS ciphers have been produced in the last week alone.

1) 2^^16 attack on the CSS cipher itself Requiring 6 known plaintext bytes

2) A 2^^17 attack on the key generation, that will yield a deluge of player keys in a matter of minutes ( such as the randum nubers ). read here

3) Finaly A third crack that will decrypt a DVD without even knowing a single player key. This attack is more complex (2^^24)but will give a valid key in less than 20 seconds on a decent machine.

In short the CSS system was poorly designed, and has now been thuroughly been demolished.

Re: mfrs *CAN'T* be locked out! by Anonymous Coward · 1999-10-30 18:47 · Score: 5 · on Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO

Actually 3 cryptoanalytical attacs against the various CSS ciphers have been produced in the last week alone.

1) 2^^16 attack on the CSS cipher itself Requiring 6 known plaintext bytes

2) A 2^^17 attack on the key generation, that will yield a deluge of player keys in a matter of minutes ( such as the randum nubers ). read here

3) Finaly A third crack that will decrypt a DVD without even knowing a single player key. This attack is more complex (2^^24)but will give a valid key in less than 20 seconds on a decent machine.

In short the CSS system was poorly designed, and has now been thuroughly been demolished.

Re: mfrs *CAN'T* be locked out! by Anonymous Coward · 1999-10-30 18:47 · Score: 5 · on Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO

Actually 3 cryptoanalytical attacs against the various CSS ciphers have been produced in the last week alone.

1) 2^^16 attack on the CSS cipher itself Requiring 6 known plaintext bytes

2) A 2^^17 attack on the key generation, that will yield a deluge of player keys in a matter of minutes ( such as the randum nubers ). read here

3) Finaly A third crack that will decrypt a DVD without even knowing a single player key. This attack is more complex (2^^24)but will give a valid key in less than 20 seconds on a decent machine.

In short the CSS system was poorly designed, and has now been thuroughly been demolished.

Now also cracked by Anonymous Coward · 1999-10-26 20:27 · Score: 0 · on LinuxDVD CSS Decrypt - Source Available

A 2^16 attack was found on the CSS algorthm.

Read here

Re:Regional Encoding, why? by Cramer · 1999-10-20 01:52 · Score: 1 · on DVD for Linux: an Interview With the Developers

Sure. It's a simple (stupid) reason...

Movies are released in different areas at different times. For example, a movie may be released to DVD in the US just as it hits the screens in Oz. But the industry doesn't like people being able to mail-order a US DVD from Oz and see a movie before they've cashed in on the box office sales.

The error(s) in their logic... how much is a movie ticket? How much is the DVD? Would you never go to a theater to see the movie just because you own the DVD?

Personally, I spend way more on videos (tapes/DVDs) than I do on movie tickets. And I often will see a movie in a theater even after I own the video -- not many people have a "home theater".

For the record, region coding is NOT "copy protection" as such it's not illegal in that sense. If anything, defeating the region coding would be a breach of the EULA for the software and/or hardware.

As was mentioned on the LiVid mailing list, it's not the home user pimping gigs of MPEG files that MPAA should be worried about. It's the Asian copy houses capable of de-compositing a pressed CD to make a master and then spit out thousands of copies. [* ] Correct me if anyone's tried this, but the home user has no way of making a DVD-ROM playable in a stand-alone DVD player. I don't know of any that will read a DVD-RAM. (Disclaimer: I've not wasted my money on a DVD-RAM, yet.)

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