>> 13. DVD playback using non-DVD cartel sanctioned decoder. The use of region >> codes to prevent playback in certain regions is against WTO rules and is >> barrier to fair trade. > > No. We don't want the legal issues this has. Regardless of your > feelings about it, as a US-based organisation there are too many > issues surrounding this.
There are legally licensed media codecs for Window Media audio and video from the Fluendo webstore available for Solaris and OpenSolaris. I am working with people from Fluendo and we are hoping to help them address the problems that are keeping them from supporting MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and AC-3 codecs for Solaris on their webstore. Hopefully those will be available soon. Fluendo also has plans for a legal DVD for Linux and Solaris available by the end of the year. So hopefully some of these long-standing video/media issues are going to be resolved soon. https://shop.fluendo.com/ Also, it wouldn't surprise me if other 3rd parties (or Sun itself) might get more involved with making needed media applications available on Linux and Solaris in the future. So it is good to keep reminding us that these are important features. Brian _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
