I perfectly understand and agree. A watermark would be ok for me.
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Sommer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 11.05 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [opensuse] PowerDVD for Linux Ok, you're right but I hate time bombs and I could avoid to include any timebombed trial software into SUSE Linux so far and I hope I can avoid it in the future too. On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, ALFANO GIULIO wrote: > Have you ever downloaded a trial versione from Internet? ;) > 30 day trial is a standard. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Sommer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 10.35 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [opensuse] PowerDVD for Linux > > > 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] ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
