Re: Re: GC DVD driver + Filesystem driver

Sascha Kwiatkowski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.game-cube.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Groepaz wrote:

>On Sunday 22 August 2004 21:47, Arthur Othieno wrote:
>  
>
>>On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:20:27AM -0700, Todd Jeffreys wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I have written a GC DVD driver and an accompanying filesystem driver.  It is
>>>now possible to "mount -t gcdvdfs /dev/dvd /mnt" and browse the filesystem.
>>>
>>>I would like to add the files to the CVS tree so I was wondering if you would
>>>grant me developer access on Sourceforge.  I have several other projects on
>>>there and my username is paladine.
>>>
>>>Thanks for the consideration,
>>>
>>>Todd Jeffreys
>>>      
>>>
>>I'm afraid it's not that trivial. The issue of actual benefits vs. uses
>>arise, with a major concern about piracy. A simillar decision went for
>>the Xbox DVD fs (xdvdfs): http://www.xbox-linux.org/docs/needgdfs.html
>>
>>So, until benefits (of which I see very few, if any) out-number actual
>>uses, I'm afraid a conclusive decision to this remains to be made, hence
>>the Cc: to gc-linux-devel. Thanks.
>>    
>>
>
>how pathetic. i would vote for putting it in. if you want to pirate gc games you
>certainly dont want to use gc-linux for it anyway.
>
>gpz
>

There are great benefits, for example DVD and CD playback on the 
Panasonic Q.
So please put it in, as I want my Q to be a MM player and use it for 
DivX and mp3 playback!

Sascha


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