[MPlayer-users] Re: best graphical card for mplayer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:03:18AM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Jonathan Rogers <jonner at teegra.net> writes:
> 
> > I've always disliked using a proprietary driver, but is it even feasible 
> > to reverse engineer hardware for functions as complex as 3D 
> > acceleration? Obviously, Nvidia should release enough specs to 
> > facilitate driver development. I wonder what it would take to bring this 
> > about.
> 
> probably it would bring them a lot of lawsuits, since there seem to exist
> a lot of nonsense patente in the area of 3d, so no one can make a card
> without violating patents. But without specs, this is hard to prove for
> the competitors ;-) IANAL, but i read something like this and it seemed
> logical to me, albeit sad.
> Look at the facts: no manufacturer of current 3d hardware is giving
> out specs.

Well a nice solution for the time being would be for them to just
release all the non-3d specs. That way the cards would at least be
usable by the rest of us...

Rich