On Wednesday 06 April 2005 14:17, Anders Johansson wrote:
First of all, which version of windows can play DVDs out of the box? None of the ones I've tried could. I had to get third party software to do it.
That's my experience too. Often (but by no means always) you will get a DVD playing application if you buy a new computer with Windows preinstalled, but Windows itself doesn't have that capability. As an aside, Mac OS X does seem to include DVD playing software in the package.
Secondly, the only thing removed from 9.3 is mp3 support, and there will be a solution for that before it hits the stores
:) ... I, like everybody else, would like to see a working DVD playback solution shipping as part of SuSE, but I imagine the licensing cost to the DVD consortium would add too much to the cost of the package. Q: Could a software distributor (e.g. SuSE) simply get a volume license from the DVD people to distribute DVD playback software, at a per-unit price, then add that price in to the price of the distribution, and legally ship e.g. Xine/MPlayer/VLC or whatever with DVD playback enabled? Hmmm. -- Bill