I'm on Debian. It's not a real issue I'm concerned about, just meddling with
it out of general curiosity and recording for posteriority as there's hardly
any hits about Fluendo's practices. I'm not endorsing or planning to use
Fedora or Fluendo's stuff. So I'll leave t at that. Thanks for
Questions about Fedora are probably best directed to the Fedora Project's
existing support resources. :)
While playing a movie on Fedora live I got this security alert. I guess it's
unrelated, but is it possible that sniffing CodeMeter could be to blame?
SELinux is preventing abrt-hook-ccpp from getattr access on the file file.
* Plugin catchall_labels (83.8 confidence) suggests
That's easy: Check out which title is the real one by playing it in VLC or
some such other program. Follow through the DVD menus to play it. Then go up
to VLC's Playback menu and look at which title is playing. Instruct the
ripping program to use that title. Ta Da. :)
So it is only a
ja...@bluehome.net, Mar 19 Abr 2016 04:49:50 CEST:
Official Trisquel policy seems to be: Ignore patents entirely.
Microsoft has claimed for years to have 200+ software patents
covering tasks performed by the Linux kernel, and that is their legal
basis for successfully charging money
At an extreme you could just play it and then record the screen as you do so
to get round the obfuscation.
As of late, some DVDs can't be ripped. Handbrake can't find the source. They
have introduced garbage in the file system that are ignored when playing but
when ripping bit by bit they cause trouble. That is my understanding. A DVD
that can't be transferred to other devices is useless.
HDCP is broken:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection#Master_key_release
I don't know what problem that person was having but it's not related to some
form of new DRM on DVDs. The encryption on DVDs can never be changed. If it
were the millions of DVD
The future may be murky for libdvdcss and DVD (let alone BR) playback on
GNU/Linux.
Some recent DVDs use an improved digital restrictions management scheme that
libdvdcss is unable to crack, thus rendering the DVDs inaccessible under a
free operating system. I bet Fluendo is counting on
That's interesting. Thanks for the clarification.
"I was under the illusion that Trisquel deliberately makes it harder to
install non-free firmware."
Nope. That is a bug in Linux-libre that Trisquel inherited from using the
Linux-libre deblob scripts. You see, when the non-free firmware isn't there
and the kernel tries to use it, that
Debian Jessie plays multimedia just fine. Well, Totem has a Gstreamer bug and
one must remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi first. I'm on Debian and I've not added
any multimedia enabling repos or installed additional codecs.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0/+bug/1373978
I was under the illusion that Trisquel deliberately makes it harder to
install non-free firmware. It won't accept wi-fi blobs, for instance. About
third-party repos I'm not sure. I guess non-free repos are easily added if
one so wishes.
"Moreover, it's inconsistent on FSF's part as they don't make any reference
to Fedora having non-free repos enabled easily -- like Debian. They seem to
think that Debian's non-free repos are somehow more integrated into the
system than they are in Fedora."
(Sorry, an earlier version of
Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat, a multinational corporation headquartered in
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Official Trisquel policy seems to be: Ignore
patents entirely. Can't necessarily blame others for wanting to draw the line
in a different place though. And you can't escape patent
That line was misplaced. I wanted to say that the repos are in RPM Fusion,
not in the distribution itself. I read the link before I posted and provided
it in my post.
Fedora is based in the US while Trisquel in Spain?
I'm not sure why Fedora doesn't include plugins for common multimedia
playback like Trisquel does."
Probably to minimize patent risk.
Only if you enable the non-free repository.
It used to be
sudo yum install vlc
Since Fedora 22 it's deprecated. They use dnf now.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/31/fedora_22_review/
I once tried Fedora
rpm install vlc
Turns up crap.
BLAG better although now extremely outdated
Thanks Red Hat! >;-(
Even Windows 10 doesn't natively support encrypted DVD's anymore. They
removed the codec and the functionality (Media Center). A player is available
in the shop for $$. The free alternative is, of course VLC and libdvdcss*.
In Fedora, one has to install RPM Fusion. It's a few clicks away, so
"Is there any merit to their claim offering a legal way to play multimedia in
GNU/Linux?"
Given the wording in the FAQ they likely pay money into the patent protection
racket, thereby supporting the very problem that the free world seeks to
eliminate. In addition, my research online seems
I was curious about this.To me it looks like a prime example why free libre
software must win hands down. Fluendo is a company based in Barcelona, Spain.
I wonder if anybody knows about their position. Particularly the DRM part,
the bit they call CodeMeter. What does it do? Does it sniff on
For sure, especially since we already have free programs to do exactly what
these proprietary programs do.
Many years ago when playback of videos and DVD's was harder than it's now, I
had Fluendo's DVD player that I payed for. It came without any DRM schemes.
The greatest downside was updates were not free after the first year.
It would be great to support some Free Libre company but if they turn
Codemeter is the copy-protection (DRM) they use for their software.
I'd recommend ditching OnePlay and switching to Gstreamer...
Here's what OnePlay Player looks like.
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