[MPlayer-dev-eng] Bluray playback

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:04:04PM +0200, Grozdan wrote:
> 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

I have no idea how libdvdcss could be integrated more deeply into MPlayer
in any sort of sensible way.  Anyway, the point should be cleared up
now.

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

I'd still appreciate this.

Diego