gottahavit has again posted some info on the very promising DivX on Dreamcast project:

“Well, I have a decent reader now, which is capable of relatively smooth reading from the cd-rom over extended period of time so now I have two major steps left. The first is to at least attempt a port to KOS and evaluate performance there. The second is to then start to optimize the code whether in KOS or CE and see just how far I can take performance. currently I can sustain a pretty nice playback of 320X240 30fps 300kbps with 22khz audio played in fullscreen mode. At 400kbps it starts getting a bit jerky but is still watchable, however the disply routines are still unuptomized aside from the use of the YUV overlay.

beyond that of course is the need to be able to make bootable disks and hopefully the ability to do disk swapping.“

He also made this request to someone with a good knowledge of KOS:

“if someone with a good background in KOS especially the video display routines, has the patience and is interested in helping me do the port this weekend please e-mail me, bare in mind I HATE the gcc toolset so I will probably not be a great student, but I will make the effort if you will.“

Good luck to everyone involved with this project, it’s sounding great already.