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From: "Gavin Miller" <paxtonatiaa dot com dot au>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:09:23 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DVD Player for OS/2 ??

Hi Voytek,

Check out this:

http://www.os2ezine dot com/v5n1/dvd.html

It should answer a few questions.


Cheers.

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:39:59 
From: voytekatsbt dot net dot au
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DVD Player for OS/2 ??

** Reply to note from "Gavin Miller" <paxtonatiaa dot com dot au> Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:09:23 -0400 (EDT)


> Check out this: 
>    
> http://www.os2ezine dot com/v5n1/dvd.html 
>    
> It should answer a few questions.

well, not really, basically, he is asking same what I have, 
'that it would be nice to have an OS/2 DVD player'

as for OS/2 reading DVD data, my ancient Thinkpad and, plain old Warp4, could do
that 3 years ago, there was no need for anything else.

perhaps it was a Thinkpad specific driver, as, the UDF stuff didn't come till
later, but, it most certainly read DVD data.

initially, I used to plug in the Thinkpad into TV set to watch movies, howver, with
cost of players dropping rapidly I ended purchasing an 'appliance' DVD player

Voytek

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From: "Gavin Miller" <paxtonatiaa dot com dot au>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:53:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DVD Player for OS/2 ??

There's also a mention on the legalities of a DVD movie player.  I'm not up to date on 
the Linix project and therefore haven't heard whether the law suits were won/lost or 
dropped.  If the DVD consortium sees the DeCSS program as a threat, they will 
undoubtably find any ports a threat as well.  There is nothing stopping us from having 
DVD video legally other than the cost.  We have the talent afterall.  Now all we need is 
the cash :-)

Cheers

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:39:59, voytekatsbt dot net dot au wrote:

>** Reply to note from "Gavin Miller" <paxtonatiaa dot com dot au> Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:09:23 
-0400 (EDT)
>
>
>> Check out this: 
>>    
>> http://www.os2ezine dot com/v5n1/dvd.html 
>>    
>> It should answer a few questions.
>
>well, not really, basically, he is asking same what I have, 
>'that it would be nice to have an OS/2 DVD player'
>
>as for OS/2 reading DVD data, my ancient Thinkpad and, plain old Warp4, could do
>that 3 years ago, there was no need for anything else.
>
>perhaps it was a Thinkpad specific driver, as, the UDF stuff didn't come till
>later, but, it most certainly read DVD data.
>
>initially, I used to plug in the Thinkpad into TV set to watch movies, howver, with
>cost of players dropping rapidly I ended purchasing an 'appliance' DVD player
>
>Voytek
>

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:02:26 
From: voytekatsbt dot net dot au
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DVD Player for OS/2 ??

** Reply to note from "Gavin Miller" <paxtonatiaa dot com dot au> Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:53:24 -0400 (EDT)


> There's also a mention on the legalities of a DVD movie player.  I'm not up to date on  
> the Linix project and therefore haven't heard whether the law suits were won/lost or  
> dropped.  If the DVD consortium sees the DeCSS program as a threat, they will  
> undoubtably find any ports a threat as well.  There is nothing stopping us from having  
> DVD video legally other than the cost.  We have the talent afterall.  Now all we need is  
> the cash :-)

neither am I up on the legal case, last I heard, the Linux DVD guys were saying,
under...? digital millenium ? or something act, you're allowed reverse engineering
for your own use, or something like that.

which, I agree with.

the DVD consortium has been trying very hard to stop the DeCSS, last I heard.



Voytek

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:45:51 +1000
From: Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DVD Player for OS/2 ??

What software did you run on the Thinkpad to play the DVD movies Voytek ?

Ed.

voytekatsbt dot net dot au wrote:

>
> as for OS/2 reading DVD data, my ancient Thinkpad and, plain old Warp4, could do
> that 3 years ago, there was no need for anything else.
>
> initially, I used to plug in the Thinkpad into TV set to watch movies, howver, with
> cost of players dropping rapidly I ended purchasing an 'appliance' DVD player
>
> Voytek

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From: "Steve Edmonds" <steveatedmondsfamily.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:44:04 +1300 (NZDT)
Subject: [os2genau] ram

Hi, a simple one I hope but can't think of it.
Grey matter getting older. How do I tell how much memory os/2 sees.
I think I may have mixed 64 meg ecc sdram and 64 meg non ecc, the bios
shows 128 meg, (although if it was all ecc there would not be enough
room to display the characters 128 meg ECC SDRAM).

thanks,
steve

