Edubuntu and DVDs

[Jerome Gotangco]

Unfortunately, DVD playback has serious legal issues in the FOSS world
in general, especially for developed countries. Unless laws are passed
to allow such, it won't be possible. I am not sure about unencrypted
DVDs if there are such.

Jerome

On 12/22/05, nigel.kennington at btinternet.com
<nigel.kennington at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Having now begun seriously trialling ubuntu (on one machine, I dont have the
> resources to set up a edubuntu lab at the moment) I've come across one thing
> that could stand to be addressed in Edubuntu: playing DVDs.
>
> Increasingly (in Scotland anyway) we're getting video resources on DVD and
> frankly setting up ubuntu to play them is nothing a non-technical user will
> ever be able to do. Can this be included in Edubuntu as enabled by default?
>



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