On 04/10/05, Martin Sommer
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! ;-)
Oh why didn't you say I've already done that. :) Think Martin's repley might need to go up on the Wiki in responce to any questions about it in the future. And this is coming from someone who hasn't worked out how to send to the group from gmail. Sorry Martin. Have fun Marcus -- Photos : www.flickr.com/photos/marcusc Blog : marcusbrain.blogspot.com `The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.' HST