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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:
...
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:
| 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.
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