3 Aug
2005
3 Aug
'05
1:20 a.m.
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:48 +0000, Ian bell wrote:
I think it is primarily a licencing issue. ISTR there is one Linux distro (Lindows?) that includes a fully licenced legal anywhere decoder in the price.
If we are talking of Lindows (Linspire) then it is not included in the price but is a paid for add on.
I was going to say that I wanted to try it to compare it to the general suckyness of Windows DVD playback software. But after some Googling I have found that it is in fact Xine with a "legal" replacement for libdvdcss.
For a brief moment I though that something like PowerDVD had been ported over to Linux (shudder)