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Re: DVD




I can say for sure that there is an effort to create an open source DVD
player (I didn't check if it's downloadable), but they are currently
defending themselves on a lawsuit (filed by the film industry, IIRC).
http://www.opendvd.org

As for a propriety DVD player, I've never heard of any but if you know of
one, I know of one person (myself) who'd be interesterd of hearing about :
-)

Because DVD is a pattent, it has some legal issues with getting it to work
with Linux. If a vendor wants to create a driver for an MPEG-2 board, it
won't be able to supply the source for the kernel module (as VMWare does),
so users will have to download a module for every kernel they use. OTOH,
binary-only software MPEG-2 players could be a good solution but would have
some performance issues (X11 overhead, for example) and won't have some
MPEG-2 card advantages (TV and SPDIF out).

Isaac Aaron



                                                                                              
                    "Mike Almogy"                                                             
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Hi ppl.

Does anyone has the program to view DVD on Linux ?

Thanks,
Mike

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