Re: [Cooker] Current cooker Alsa setting impacting Lindvd playing of videos

[Colin Guthrie]

Michael scherer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:41:26AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Steve Morris wrote:
>>> I have not been able to use vlc, xine or vlc among others, irrespective
>>> of whether I have all the codecs I can find on plf installed or not. The
>>> issue seems to be with CSS encoded dvds, and the reason lindvd plays
>>> them is because, like in windvd and powerdvd under windows, the license
>>> for the environment to be able play the dvds has been paid for as part
>>> of the purchase of lindvd, which is why lindvd is in the powerpack
>>> version of Mandriva and not the free version. Having said this, it is
>>> also possible that one of the reasons why lindvd does not correctly
>>> handle dual region dvds, could be because I have been performing all my
>>> system updates through cooker and haven't done an update from a 2008
>>> powerpack dvd to get an updated version of lindvd if there is one.
>> Install libdvdcss from PLF to decode CSS encoded DVDs.... It's not
>> offically part of Mandiva due to patent issues..... tho' ironically you
>> can get a deCSS t-shirt!
> 
> It is not patents issues, it is dmca issues. A patent would requires to provides the scheme
> to decrypt dvd in exchange of the exclusivity for XX years ( and would also requires
> some "innovative" features ), while the dmca simply forbid to bypass technical measures
> of protection, such as css ( even if this is not a effective one, imho ).

Then someone should change the description in the PLF package ;)

Tho; I still thought it was covered by one or more patents "A method of
encrypting media content by blah blah blah". The bar for innovation, as
I'm sure you are aware, can be compared more to a road bump than a
pole-vault bar.....

Col

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