Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Mar 2008 23:05 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris The sixth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes support for easy synchronization of Windows Mobile 5+, Blackberry and Nokia devices, the Codeina multimedia codec installation system, support for Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics cards, more improvements to the Mandriva software installation tools, the finalized 2008 Spring theme, a new metapackage for easily installing a complete LAMP setup, and available KDE 4.0.2. See here for download information.
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RE[3]: Codeina - legal codecs
by AdamW on Thu 20th Mar 2008 04:07 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Codeina - legal codecs"
AdamW
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2005-07-06

LinDVD is specifically for playing DVDs. None of the things you mentioned are relevant to this. The only freely available decoder for CSS (the encryption scheme used by DVD) is dvdcss. The use of dvdcss to watch encrypted commercial DVDs is illegal under the DMCA in the U.S. and the EUCD in the E.U.

Yep, it may be an ass, but it's the law.

Codeina isn't relevant to this, it does not handle DVD decryption, only providing licensed codecs for common video and audio formats.

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