[MPlayer-dev-eng] Bluray playback

[Grozdan]

2009/9/7 Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 12:38:32PM +0200, Grozdan wrote:
>>
>> Also, I think one of the other reasons why
>> MPlayer uses "external" libdvdcss lib is due to the fact that in some
>> countries it's not legal to use it and in such case, it'll be very
>> easy just to delete the libdvdcss directory in MPlayer's source
>> directory, compile without it and still provide it to the user, albeit
>> crippled without libdvdcss support. If it was directly built-in into
>> the MPlayer code, that'll be difficult to do.
>
> I have no idea where you got this silly idea.  MPlayer has shipped
> libdvdcss since the dawn of time.  It's just some distros that remove
> it.
>
> Notice that nobody ever had any problems due to producing or
> distributing libdvdcss.

Which was kinda the point I was trying to make. If dvdcss was
*directly* coded into MPlayer (as in deeply integrated into its
codebase), such distros that (want to) remove it due to legal fears
will possibly not offer MPlayer at all (or have to patch MPlayer
heavily just to remove it), unlike now where they just remove the
libdvdcss dir.

Am I correct on this? My understanding of such legality is not very deep :D

>
> Diego
>
> P.S.: Please properly snip your quotes.
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