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Reverse Engineering an MPEG Driver

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the how-we-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following on from the recent spate of reverse engineering articles, there is an interesting summary of the reverse engineering of a binary only Linux driver. The driver is for the integrated MPEG decoder on VIA's popular EPIA-M boards. At the moment VIA has not publicly released the source code for the MPEG chipset on these boards and will only make the code available under NDA saying that "Typically, only requests from companies developing product for sale will be approved." As a result this is holding back development of open source tools (e.g. xine, mplayer, vdr) that would be able to make use of the interesting hardware on these boards."

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  1. Lies all lies by plone · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Arnold never smoked weed, nor did he ever have a neeed for a reverse engineered MPEG player

    1. Re:Lies all lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      His father was a Nazi though.

  2. What is going on in Brazil ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Brazilian police in Rio De Janeiro have killed over 600 people in the 1st half of 2003.

    WTF ?!?

    Are they trying to outdo Stalin down there?

    Brazil needs to put the space program down and work on the civil rights movement.

  3. Let's just get the code by CastrTroy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Set up company
    2. Tell them you want to develop for sale
    3. Make some nice Linux Drivers
    4. Sell copies of software for 0.01 $CDN. (Cheaper than 0.01 $US)
    5. ????
    6. Profit

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