On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:40:59PM +0200, Martin Sommer wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Daniel Bertolo wrote: > > > [...] > > > > If that is illegal because I could capture the video stream and TVtime > > would not add that Macrovision stuff to my video file, that would mean > > that any TV application is illegal which is able to capture a stream on > > SVIDEO or Composite. > > > > So, now my question: What exactly has to be done in order to build a > > legal DVD player for Linux? > > > > Not much: You need only: > > - convince all developers of the xine project (>30) that they change the > xine license from GPL to LGPL or BSD (use alternatively the mplayer or > the ogle project or write one from scratch)) to be able to link against > the proprietary CSS stuff
Won't it be possible to write a binary that others can interact with? e.g. I make a closed source libdvdcss2? About the prices, I have seen DVD players on DVD's. Do they all pay that much? houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
