Re: HD-DVD player

Reid Towsley wrote:
> Now this is a DVD player! The new Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD player sports a
> Pentium4 2.5GHz processor, 1GB RAM, and the OS runs off of a 256MB USB
> 2.0 flash disk that runs Linux.
>
> That's quite the peice of hardware, and it would be very cool to see
> someone modify it and turn it into a HTPC.
>
> http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/archive/2006/04/21/75795.aspx

Man, with a 256mb flash, it'd be nice if they posted the disk image of
the key -- I'd love to start reverse engineering the code.

Assuming a stock kernel with not too much secret sauce (since it'd be a
GPL violation if it was shipped linked to a binary-only module!), you
could try and "match" the interface, or use a shim loader (ala how some
Wireless cards work on Linux) to drive the HD-DVD drive, and skip the
sutpid HDCP shit.
Received on Mon May 15 23:40:51 2006