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Commercial DVD Software Comes to Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the years-too-late dept.

timekillerj writes "Turbolinux launched a new version of it's Linux distribution today. The key feature is the first commercial DVD player, provided by Cyberlink. PowerDVD for Linux supports menu navigation, Dolby Digital sound, subtitles, and more."

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  1. It is not the first. by stm2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lindows (or Linspire) has one commercial DVD player. It was released more than a year ago. It cost 4.95 for CNR members.

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  2. Yes...But... by reality-bytes · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are already some great players for Linux available (they've been around for ages) but they exist in a legal grey-area.

    Remember, just because you bought the DVD and bought the hardware to play it back with doesn't mean you are neccesarily allowed to choose what software you use to play it back!

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  3. Not for PowerDVD by tmk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its 69 dollar for Turbolinux not for PowerDVD.

    It is like Acrobat Reader or Realplayer for Linux.

  4. Re:Could DeCSS become legal? by Firethorn · · Score: 5, Informative

    DeCSS was basically a reverse engineered copy of the decryption portion of a dvd player, not to mention using a key.

    To join the group, besides paying $$$, you have to agree to all sorts of rules about player operation like listening to the force play flag, macrovision, and region coding. Oh, and not disclosing some of the specifications (they're a trade secret).

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  5. Old News by danda · · Score: 5, Informative

    PowerDVD was first announced on Linux in 2000. See this article in the Register:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/18/dvd_play ba ck_on_linux_just/

    To my knowledge, they have never released it for end-users to buy/download.

    However, in 2001 I purchased a ThinkPad T22 from IBM pre-loaded with Linux and it had PowerDVD installed. The software required some funky thinkpad driver to be installed or it could not playback. I long ago dumped that distribution (caldera) and now Xine/mplayer et al run just fine on the same thinkpad without any special drivers.