libdvdcss

[Jan Claeys]

Op za, 03-06-2006 te 21:55 -0400, schreef Shawn McMahon:
> On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 22:54 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> > Shawn McMahon wrote:
> >> With most DVDs, if you stick them into a Windows box that has never had
> >> DVD support loaded, 2 minutes later DVD support will be working and
> >> you'll be watching your DVD.  At no point during this process will you
> >> be told to edit a config file, type anything into a command line, or
> >> visit a wiki.
> 
> > Feel free to work on making this possible on Ubuntu too.
> 
> If we're only going to provide our users with the capabilities that fit
> within my programming ability and schedule commitments, Mark might as
> well find something else to do with that money.  This isn't going to
> turn into the "your opinion doesn't matter unless you have code in the
> kernel" dismissal to go with the "anybody who doesn't agree with me is a
> sheep" dismissal we already had, is it? 

Code is not the only way to help make this possible.
Another way would be to collect a bounty to give who implements this...
(And some other things might help too, like making a specification of
what programs probably need changes to implement this.)

-- 
Jan Claeys