On 7/19/06, Tom Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Linspire offers a very inexpensive DVD player that you can get through the
CNR warehouse. However I don't think that any distro ships with a DVD
player that will play css encoded DVDs.
Of course, that depends on your definitions of "ships" (se
Linspire offers a very inexpensive DVD player that you can get through the CNR warehouse. However I don't think that any distro ships with a DVD player that will play css encoded DVDs.
Tom>>> "Kyle Waters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/19/2006 10:14 PM >>>Steven H. McCown wrote:> Okay, that makes sens
Kyle Waters wrote:
Steven H. McCown wrote:
Okay, that makes sense. So, how does Linux get away with including a DVD
player and still providing the source? Even if it is built outside the US,
some of the distro companies (e.g., Novell) are within the US. Presumably
they would be under the sam
Steven H. McCown wrote:
> Okay, that makes sense. So, how does Linux get away with including a DVD
> player and still providing the source? Even if it is built outside the US,
> some of the distro companies (e.g., Novell) are within the US. Presumably
> they would be under the same rules.
Which
Dan is correct. Linspire (where I used to work) was one of the very few
Linux distros where you could "purchase" a legal DVD player but we did
not ship it as part of the distro because of licensing costs. Linspire
does, however, ship with mp3 decoders which they have a license for and
for whi
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Steven H. McCown wrote:
Okay, that makes sense. So, how does Linux get away with including a DVD
player and still providing the source? Even if it is built outside the US,
some of the distro companies (e.g., Novell) are within the US. Presumably
they would be under the sa
From: Tom Welch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
7:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LDS
Open Source Software
Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] DVD Player
Software
There are patents with associated licensing costs
protecting the commercial DVD codecs and so if you find one, it may
Steven H. McCown wrote:
Does anyone know of some
good and widely used open source DVD
Player Software that is available on Windows?
VLC (videolan.org) works on Windows;
however, on their wiki, they warn you that in the U.S. you probably
need to consult with your lawyer
On 2006.07.12 07:18:31 -0600, Steven H. McCown wrote:
> Does anyone know of some good and widely used open source DVD Player
> Software that is available on Windows?
What Tom said is valid.
However, you can get mplayer for windows and Linux.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
--Robert
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There are patents with associated licensing costs protecting the
commercial DVD codecs and so if you find one, it may not be "legal" or
it may not play commercial DVDs. This is why you don't really see a
lot of "free" DVD players.
Tom
Steven H. McCown wrote:
Does anyone know o
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