How could you imagine a trial version of a DVD player? Should it stop to play the movie after 30 minutes or should it display a watermark on the movie screen as MianActor does? You don't really want to use such a player...
Martin On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, ALFANO GIULIO wrote: > How about a trial version? Like you do with MainActor? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Sommer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 10.28 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [opensuse] PowerDVD for Linux > > > Hi Jorge, > this is of course a good idea. We will see what we can do in that regard. > But be aware that commercial DVD players cost not only royalties, they > cost a lot of royalties (for mpeg2, Dolby and CSS). And it needs to be > well considered if we really want to pass all those costs to the > customer. In my opinion the Turbolinux 10F is very expensive because of > these royalties, you get 3 CDs and no manual at all for 70 bugs. > Currently you get a SUSE Linux box for 60 bugs with 1 DVD, 5 CDs, a > printed manual and 3 months installation support. But you're right, it's > worth to think about that. > > A few more comments to your e-mail: > > mp3 decoder is already included in SL 10.0 (retail version). It's used by > amarok, banshee and realplay to play mp3 files. > > PowerDVD is not the first legal DVD player for Linux, there are a few > Linux OEM versions in the market that included LinDVD from Intervideo. > > MPlayer, Ogle and Xine are not illegal principally but using DeCSS with > these players is illegal (not in some but in most countries). > > Martin > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > This question is mainly for the Novell employees watching this list: > > > > What do you think about including "PowerDVD for Linux" on the box version? > > > I'm using it now (got it from TurboLinux which I bought some months ago) > and > > I think it's great. It's the first official (legal) DVD player for Linux. > > > > > I think it will be a great add-on to the retail version. I know it will > cost > > you (licenses) but you can pass that on to the consumer. The same with an > > > mp3 decoder? After all, for those that don't want to pay for these extra > > closed-source/non-free software, there's always the OSS version > available. > > > > BTW...I know there's Mplayer and Ogle out there that we can use for DVD > > playbay (although not legally in some countries)...I'm just curious about > the > > PowerDVD possibility. > > > > For the rest: comments are welcome :) > > > > Thanks, > > Jorge > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Dr. Martin Sommer Product Manager Consumer Products SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, D-90409 Nürnberg Phone: +49 (0) 911 740 530 Fax: +49 (0) 911 740 53 575 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------
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