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Re: [SLE] Watching DVD on SuSE 10
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:26:46 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0510162118560.12651@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Sunday 2005-10-16 at 09:21 -0700, kai wrote:
> I agree it is totally fscked that SuSE doesn't include DVD playback out of the
> box. I cannot belive that their lawyers are so fscking lame they can't
> negotiate a contract to provide CSS on thier incuded DVD player and then
> simply charge a few cents more per box. I can understand if it isn' t
> included on the download but give me a break - I get a crippled version from
> the box.
It is not a question of a few cents - it would have been done long ago if
it were. Look, I excerpt what a person from SuSE (Martin S.) said not long
ago in the opensuse list:
|> 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
|- sign a contract with the DVD CCA to get the official CSS technology
|- pay 19,000 USD a year to DVD CCA
|- implement the CSS technology into xine
|- talk to all major graphics card vendors and convince them to support
| Linux and provide interfaces for the use of macrovision in Linuxplayers
|- implement it into the player
|- sign a contract with Dolby for decoding dolby 2 channel and/or
| 6 channel sound
|- pay approx. 0.8 - 1.50 USD per sold copy of the program to Dolby
| (depends on sound quality and the number of sold copies)
|- sign a contract with MPEGLA for decoding mpeg2 video format
|- pay 2.50 USD per sold copy to MPEGLA (independent from numbers)
|
|
|That's all, let's begin! ;-)
Before going further, I'd recomend you read the whole thread there, it is
very interesting.
And it would be well over 20$, by the way...
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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The Sunday 2005-10-16 at 09:21 -0700, kai wrote:
> I agree it is totally fscked that SuSE doesn't include DVD playback out of the
> box. I cannot belive that their lawyers are so fscking lame they can't
> negotiate a contract to provide CSS on thier incuded DVD player and then
> simply charge a few cents more per box. I can understand if it isn' t
> included on the download but give me a break - I get a crippled version from
> the box.
It is not a question of a few cents - it would have been done long ago if
it were. Look, I excerpt what a person from SuSE (Martin S.) said not long
ago in the opensuse list:
|> So, now my question: What exactly has to be done in order to build a
|> legal DVD player for Linux?
|>
|
|Not much: You need only:
|
|- convince all developers of the xine project (>30) that they change the
| xine license from GPL to LGPL or BSD (use alternatively the mplayer or
| the ogle project or write one from scratch)) to be able to link against
| the proprietary CSS stuff
|- sign a contract with the DVD CCA to get the official CSS technology
|- pay 19,000 USD a year to DVD CCA
|- implement the CSS technology into xine
|- talk to all major graphics card vendors and convince them to support
| Linux and provide interfaces for the use of macrovision in Linuxplayers
|- implement it into the player
|- sign a contract with Dolby for decoding dolby 2 channel and/or
| 6 channel sound
|- pay approx. 0.8 - 1.50 USD per sold copy of the program to Dolby
| (depends on sound quality and the number of sold copies)
|- sign a contract with MPEGLA for decoding mpeg2 video format
|- pay 2.50 USD per sold copy to MPEGLA (independent from numbers)
|
|
|That's all, let's begin! ;-)
Before going further, I'd recomend you read the whole thread there, it is
very interesting.
And it would be well over 20$, by the way...
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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