Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Mar 2008 23:05 UTC, submitted by AdamW
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[2]: Codeina - legal codecs
by lemur2 on Thu 20th Mar 2008 03:46
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Member since:2007-02-17
by providing the legal codecs through linDVD (I think that's it anyhow), users in the US and other patent restricted countries can use the software without any legally grey areas.
There are a number of ways to get codecs for Linux, but linDVD wouldn't be one of them that I would use.
Google for "Fluendo", "libavcodec" (included in mplayer) or "VLC". Use (and pay for) only the first of these options if you are a suppressed and downtrodden unfortunate living in the US.
RE[3]: Codeina - legal codecs
by AdamW on Thu 20th Mar 2008 04:07
in reply to "RE[2]: Codeina - legal codecs"
Member since: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.
Member since:
2007-09-06
by providing the legal codecs through linDVD (I think that's it anyhow), users in the US and other patent restricted countries can use the software without any legally grey areas.