[MPlayer-dev-eng] Bluray playback

[compn]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 20:32:21 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:55:09PM -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 07:57 +0300, Jonathan Nell wrote:
>> > > do that. That would mean that no keys are needed (at least until AACS
>> > > revokes the key). An alternative would be to actually buy a key legit
>> > > (get one donated or cash donated somehow) - i'll look into the cost.
>> > 
>> > I have no real information on which to base the following claim, but my
>> > intuition tells me that's not going to be feasible.  Although if you
>> > find out the cost, I'd be curious to hear it.
>> 
>> For getting a key, you'd have to implement the DRM stuff, in particular
>> make efforts to keep keys and data encrypted wherever possible and
>> obfuscated wherever not possible. The later part is not really possible
>> with OpenSource (and probably no possible while using X11 in general
>> unless misusing the extension system).
>> I'll not even start to mention -vo yuv4mpeg and -ao pcm or mencoder.
>
>P.S. of course, if you have several million dollars too much you could
>try to get one anyway and see if you would get through with a lawsuit
>for abusing a monopoly to exclude OpenSource products, though against
>such adversaries I wouldn't think there was much of a chance even if the legal
>stuff was "clearly" on "your" side...

i wonder if fluendo would help with this? or if you could ask them to
ask how much a license is.

-compn