On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, houghi wrote: > 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?
If they want to be completely legal: yes. But I doubt that each DVD player which is available, is completely legal. PowerDVD and WinDVD definitely are as you can imagine. -- 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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