Ah, lost but not forgotten.  Thank you for the pointer.

Datawolf wrote:
> 
> 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).  :)