feedback to NVidia [was: Nvidia Drivers]

[Jeremy Brown]

Chris Kloiber wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 09:37, Greg Trounson wrote:
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>>What about legitimate uses such as backing up videos (DVD or VCD) that 
>>you bought?  No piracy involved there.
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>No video card, either. DVD/VCD don't have to go through the video card
>on the way to or from the hard drive. VHS to DVD is another story, but
>even then it could go in my bttv card to disk without going through the
>video card. DVD to VHS... One word. "Why?"
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He's referring to the NVidia cards that do video input; many (most, 
even) of the recent ones do.  If you attempt to record incoming VHS data 
using the card as an input mechanism, your input will have a big black 
streak through it, enforced by the NVidia drivers themselves (i.e. not 
in hardware).

On another note, I vote we please kill this thread or take it off list, 
unless you have something technical to add about NVidia drivers and FC2 
support.  These debates about the morality of binary drivers are great 
and all, but with several hundred something other emails a day on this 
list from other users genuinely asking for help, they just serve as 
clutter and impede other legitimate support questions from being answered.

Jeremy