On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:40:59PM +0200, Martin Sommer wrote:
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Daniel Bertolo wrote:
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If that is illegal because I could capture the video stream and TVtime would not add that Macrovision stuff to my video file, that would mean that any TV application is illegal which is able to capture a stream on SVIDEO or Composite.
So, now my question: What exactly has to be done in order to build a legal DVD player for Linux?
Not much: You need only:
- convince all developers of the xine project (>30) that they change the xine license from GPL to LGPL or BSD (use alternatively the mplayer or the ogle project or write one from scratch)) to be able to link against the proprietary CSS stuff
Won't it be possible to write a binary that others can interact with? e.g. I make a closed source libdvdcss2? About the prices, I have seen DVD players on DVD's. Do they all pay that much? houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html