On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:08:01AM +0200, 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.
The smae goes for the XP version. I see my VGA cable as video out. The same goes for an embedded system, wich has some way of getting the zeros and ones from the DVD to the screen. 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]
