[MPlayer-dev-eng] DRM functionality as part of decoder of mplayer running on embedded linux

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:03:32PM +0530, Anup kodpadi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to incorporate Digital Rights Management(DRM) functionality 
> for a portable audio device on embedded linux.
>  For my device i have incorporated  mplayer as the base player with Qt
> as User Interface application.
> 
> Kindly let me know what approaches can be done to bring up this
> functionality in linux.
> 
>  Is there any open source on DRM for mplayer , if so can we get
> details of implementation/pointers  to get the source
>  OR
> I need to buy it from microsoft and integrate with mplayer. ( If so at
>  least can we get the approach of integrating DRM with mplayer)

MPlayer is GPL, and you cannot satisfy the requirements of the GPL
while linking proprietary code to it. Any DRM support you include will
necessarily have to provide full source under GPL, which sort of
defeats the purpose of DRM. :)

Rich