Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > > > Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things ... > > > > ... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all > > of the stuff necessary to do DVD-authoring!? > > While I've never touched Ubuntu's "DVD authoring" stuff, I can add > some additional speculations, in addition to maddog's very cogent > points: > > At a lower level, a DVD is just a filesystem. They don't have to be > restricted using anyone's special crypto, nor do they have to use any > particular codec. In order for them to play in a consumer appliance > which implements "DVD Video" and *only* DVD Video, the files have to > have particular names and use particular codecs, but they still don't > need special crypto. Many consumer appliance these days implement > additional codecs, meaning the files just have to particular names if > you don't care about broad compatibility.
The particular GUI-level package at which I was looking is called "DeVeDe". A Ubuntu-using co-worker of mine pointed it out to me and basically described it as `exactly what you want, if you want to create DVDs to play on TV'. -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
