Am Di 04.10.2005 14:40 schrieb Martin Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > - sign a contract with the DVD CCA to get the official CSS technology > - pay 19,000 USD a year to DVD CCA > - implement the CSS technology into xine > - talk to all major graphics card vendors and convince them to support > Linux and provide interfaces for the use of macrovision in > Linuxplayers > - implement it into the player > - sign a contract with Dolby for decoding dolby 2 channel and/or > 6 channel sound > - pay approx. 0.8 - 1.50 USD per sold copy of the program to Dolby > (depends on sound quality and the number of sold copies) > - sign a contract with MPEGLA for decoding mpeg2 video format > - pay 2.50 USD per sold copy to MPEGLA (independent from numbers)
And that is too hard for Novell? But Linspire can handle it: http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?product_id=11804 The download of that "app" is just 0.04MB in size. And it is declared as "closed source". So, it might be just the library. What the price is concerned, I suggested more than once on the list, that Novell should sell it seperatly online. Just a quick calc for the price: Estimate to sell 10'000 copies: - 1.90 USD to DVD CCA - 1.50 USD to Dolby - 2.50 USD to MPEGLA - 5.00 USD to Novell (engineering) Total cost for Novell: USD 10.90 per copy. Sell it for USD 39.99. Or the other way around: Sell it for USD 39.99. Fixed cost: - 19'000 USD to DVD CCA - 50'000 USD to Novell (engineering) Variable cost: - 1.50 USD to Dolby - 2.50 USD to MPEGLA Like that, Novell must sell approximately 2'000 copies in order to be at break even. That sounds possible to me. The engineering cost I estimated is either for adopting LinDVD or PowerDVD in order to work with SuSE Linux, or to find a solution to get it legally work with xine or Mplayer. If that solution just works with the binary drivers from ATI and Nvidia that would even be a beginning. Dani --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
