silentbob343
Nov 22 2006, 01:03 AM
Somebody brought this up over at AVS and I thought it was an interesting idea. The 360 add-on wil run on a desktop PC. What it really needs is linux drivers and Linux HD DVD playback software.
bigjimmy
Nov 22 2006, 06:10 AM
Thats a damn good idea......im sure it wont be long until the drivers for the HD-DVD player are released or made for linux.
bucko
Nov 22 2006, 12:35 PM
Well I read ages back that the HD-DVD set-top box players actually have a Linux as the OS (I believe it was a very trimmed down version of Red Hat) to fit inside a flash chip. You know them great big HD-DVD players I'm talking about.
So I'm sure HD-DVD works under Linux.
Well with all the 360 firmware hacking I'm sure one of them guys could knock up a modified driver for the drive to work in PPC Linux.
Edit that would also be good if Blu-Ray fails, and your expensive PS3 investment wont be so bad at all, you will have the best of both worlds.
silentbob343
Nov 25 2006, 05:12 AM
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A software player needs AACS keys and I doubt that any open source application will qualify for them.
Chances are we'll need to purchase a piece of software like WinDVD or PowerDVD to play the disc.
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