-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-05-05 at 21:39 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:52:15AM -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
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The present situation is in a long run bad for both financial or adoption goals.
We have been investigating all those solutions, but as you see, we have not come to a working solution yet.
Could we have an update on this: <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2005-10/msg00238.html> ? That email explained the legal issues with DVDs, but there are more with multimedia in general. This is what was said then: | Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:40:59 +0200 (CEST) | From: Martin Sommer <**@suse.de> | To: <opensuse@opensuse.org> | Subject: Re: [opensuse] feedback on SuSE10.0RC1 from a former gentoo'er | ... |> 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! ;-) | You see, there are also issues on the Linux camp... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGPeQItTMYHG2NR9URAqViAJsEW2mLj1TsEOBsGs9E97QH49sY9QCeKoPp tUBY1ojjD4b/aQVm2rBCkZk= =f5sc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org