This is a really old post, but: there are 3rd party open-source drivers
for the Hollywood+ at:

http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/

-Datawolf

Digital Wokan wrote:
> 
> Hopefully they can do something to let me use the hardware decoder
> then.  I've got the ReelMagic Hollywood+ which the company keeps
> (irately) stating will _never_ have Linux support (as we all know, that
> just means from them).  I've seen what software decoding looks like,
> even on 600+ MHz systems and I'm not impressed, especially for
> full-screen playback.  (That's a lot of work for a standard CPU when you
> add decoding on top of everything else.)
> 
> I'm on my to linuxvideo.org in a sec.  Hopefully it plays well with this
> Mandrake 7.2rc1 (somebody has to be a guinea pig).  :)