Various Media STB possible violations

[Peter Robinson]

Hi Joseph,

On Feb 18, 2008 9:19 PM, Joseph Heenan <joseph at heenan.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I started this email about MVix media players but with a little google
> > work it seems a lot of the Media Players out there that are based on
> > Sigma Design chips. The only release from them that I can find is a
> > kernel here http://www.uclinux.org/ports/ from 2003 for their EM8500
> > series of chips. Nothing as yet for the em86xx chips that most of
> > these devices seem to be based on.
>
> Something that claims to be the MX-760HD source code is available here:
>
> http://www.mvixusa.com/support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=72
>
> This was released after the previous time the topic was raised on this list.
>
> (I don't know if that covers all the players or not; that would take
> some more effort to figure out.)

Yes, I found that after sending this mail (Typical) but I don't think
it covers them all as there has been new versions of firmware and new
products since. I also found this post (listed below) to the list
mentioning the code from Sigma I mentioned above. It seems that Sigma
has done a one off code dump back in 2003 and no releases of their SDK
since so nothing covering the newer SDKs they give to their various
oem partners so there's no support for their newer chips like the 86xx
series of chips that most of the manufacturers are using in their PVR
and IP set top boxes.

http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2007-February/001007.html

Regards,
Peter