other dvd players

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 15:46:16 UTC 2007


On 1/22/07, Mark Knoop <mpknoop at gmail.com> wrote:

> The others (mplayer, xine, etc) can play unencrypted dvds if you
> install libdvdread which is free. To play css encrypted dvds you need
> to also install libdvdcss (non-free).

In what sense is libdvdcss non-free?

/* libdvdcss.c: DVD reading library.
 *
 * Authors: St<E9>phane Borel <stef at via.ecp.fr>
 *          Samuel Hocevar <sam at zoy.org>
 *          H<E5>kan Hjort <d95hjort at dtek.chalmers.se>
 *
 * Copyright (C) 1998-2002 VideoLAN
 *
 * Modified for use with MPlayer, changes contained in libdvdcss_changes.diff.
 * detailed CVS changelog at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/main/
 * $Id: libdvdcss.c 18110 2006-04-15 21:45:29Z reimar $
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.

etc. etc.

Andras




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