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From: Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in>
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:31:40 +0200
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C
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On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> Good luck trying to get Plan 9 to play video!
>>
>
> minooka; lc /sys/src/9/pc/*tv*.c
> devtv.c		vgatvp3020.c	vgatvp3026.c

Sure, if you have a TV tuner. What I was referring to was Plan 9's
ability (or lack thereof) to decode and play digital video codecs.
Just one of those things that prevent someone from running only Plan 9
on their computers -- you need one of the big 3 for web browser + video.

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Anant