>>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2005 at 1:40 am, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > - 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) > > > That's all, let's begin! ;- ) > Yes please ;) would that not be great if we could have all that in SUSE .... Turbolinux is not afraid of doing it ... Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
