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). :)