-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDUql5tTMYHG2NR9URAj4UAKCOZiYbytehgkx+u03UN2aPU4g5awCghzIJ RHnpNHseGtEWsgt8jgDiGLU= =rX1v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----