On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 06:51:31PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Even if one goes to a country that allows DeCSS (DVD decryption), Linux > >just plain never can play ALL DVDs like Windoze can. > > Uh, whut? Leaving out the fact that the Linux DVD players are generally > region free and so *automatically* play more DVD's than Windows which is > region-locked ... > > DVD's have a standard. If you follow that standard, you can play a DVD. > There is nothing inherent in the DVD standard that prevents Linux from > playing all DVD's. > > If Linux can't play a DVD, that's a bug. Period. > > Don't confuse programmer laziness with "can't be done."
Thanks all on this thread. I had resigned myself to buying some Windoze CDs but now you people are give me the idea that Linux may have hope yet. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
