> -----Original Message----- > From: Dinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:02 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: dvd player software > > On Dec 23, 2007 6:40 PM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For what it's worth Vista comes with DVD playback as do some Linux > distros > > (although most of those provide that via VLC). > > There's quite a few dvd players for Linux. Not bad, most of them. > > Course, the original decss-er was a *nix head, right? :-)
True - but that didn't play a thing, only strip the encryption so that something else could play it. The main reason that DeCSS was created was because there were no legal, open-source methods to play a DVD - CSS required a licensing fee. I'm not sure how the legal side of things were settled (I believe there were several court decisions in several countries) but VLC definitely plays DVDs without affecting the copy protection - in other words, legally. I believe that nearly all *nix DVD players use the same DVD decoding library that the VLC team created, but I could be wrong. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249070 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
