On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:55:20AM +0200, houghi wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:37:35AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > > The problem is that they have to integrate tightly with the shipping X > > > Server > > > to fulfill the mandatory copy protection mechanisms (macrovision). > > > This makes shipping a generic DVD player for Linux very difficult. > > > > Ah, so if there would be a legal version of libdvdcss2, that would cause a > > problem? Somehow I do not think so. To build an installer around that > > should not be too hard, be it deb, rpm, tgz or even a binary. > > Well, can you guarantee that this will always enable Macrovision protection > for Video Out of your graphics card? > > If not, you are not conforming and do not have a legal DVD player. >
That's right and as far as I heard from the X guys, it's simply impossible to get this done for all available graphics cards. I talked many times to both Intervideo and Cyberlink. They have no plans to release a Linux version of the DVD players for the retail. Another comment to an earlier statement of this thread: yes, libdvdcss is illegal in most countries. Therefore we cannot implement an open source Linux DVD player. But playing unencrypted DVDs is legal but a little boring because almost no commercial movie comes on an unencrypted DVD. Further even if it's generally legal to play them, normally movies use dolby and mpeg2 as sound and video codecs. And we cannot decode these formats without paying royalties to Dolby and mpegla. (For each copy of course). That's the reason why we SUSE Linux plays neither encrypted nor unencrypted movie DVDs. Martin -- 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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