Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

On Aug 22 2001, csj wrote:
> On 20 Aug 2001 18:37:25 -0300, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote:
> > On Aug 13 2001, Rogério Brito wrote:
> <snip>
> > 	(BTW, as a side comment, both of my posts to this list
> > 	regarding DVDs in the last month received almost no responses,
> > 	a very curious fact -- is it an indication that people are not
> > 	using DVDs with Linux? Why? Aren't people satisfied with the
> > 	results?)
> <snip>
> 
> Maybe because playing it can get you in jail. ;-)

	I sincerely hope you're kidding. After all, you've purchased
	the DVDs (or rented them, for that matter) and, thus, has
	acquired the right to play them (at least temporarily).

	Thank <your preferred deity> that I'm not in the US right now.
	:-)

> DVD playing is perhaps one area where the hacker/cracker distinction
> (which I myself don't believe in) falls apart. Playing most DVDs in
> Linux is ILLEGAL. (That, however, shouldn't stop you.)

	I really don't see why, but then, I'm rusty on the DeCSS news.

> For most brainless Hollywood movies VCD's are just fine.

	Sincerely, I'm more interested in shows than in movies. :-)

	I can't find VCDs where I live, but I've already thought of
	making some using vcdimager, which, fortunately, is available
	in unstable (but I can't find good ripping and converting
	software for producing MPEG1 files, not even under Windows).


	[]s, Roger...

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