Review request begs

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 19:07:17 UTC 2010


> libcrystalhd - Broadcom Crystal HD device interface library
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553717
>
> I just got the driver for these cards merged into the linux kernel
> staging tree a few days ago. Now we need the device interface library to
> talk to the thing and add support to apps to use it. This is a hardware
> h.264, mpeg2 and vc1 decoder board. That's right. 100% free and
> open-source drivers and libs from Broadcom, and they give us a way to
> decode digital video on Fedora w/o violating any codec patents, since
> the decoding is done entirely in hardware (this is pretty similar to the
> mpeg2 decoder on the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 in that respect).

I'll grab this one because I started looking at packaging it up the
other day, so if someone else has done the work I was going to do the
least I can do it review it :-)

Cheers,
Peter




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