[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFII software patent demo, politics, KiSS

[VMiklos]

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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Diego Biurrun wrote:

> Watching DVDs under Linux has IMHO never been illegal.

I don't know, but...

from http://movix.sourceforge.net/Docs/eMoviX/countries/en/main.html


"    *  IMPORTANT DVD NEWS *** Because of the DeCSS legal problems, this
eMoviX version cannot read encrypted DVDs unless you add by your own the
libdvdcss.so library to the distro.

The libdvdcss library makes use of the DeCSS algorithm, that has been
declared illegal in some country (e.g. USA and Germany), so before adding
it I suggest you to make sure it is ok to use it in your country.

Because of the extremely unclear status of the legal matters about DeCSS I
can't even provide a link for those who legitimally can make use of it.
Nevertheless all you should do is going in your favorite search engine,
look for the package named libdvdcss-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm and copy that
package in your $prefix/share/emovix/movix directory (or in src/movix if
you are building eMoviX CDs without using the mkmovixiso script).

Once the library is in you eMovX installation, remember to add "-css" to
the mkmovixiso options for all eMoviX CDs that you want to make able to
read encrypted DVDs. "

greetings

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