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VLC Hits the Device Market
JoeBorn writes "VideoLAN has long been known as a mature open source project for video playback and transcoding on the PC. Now, Neuros and Texas Instruments have sponsored a port of VLC to their next generation open set-top box. The idea is to allow developers to easily create interesting plug-ins for recording and transcoding applications for the set-top box which will automate functions previously requiring a PC, like formating recordings for a portable player or streaming to another device on the LAN or the Internet, etc."
I have a funny feeling there will be nothing open about their implementations.
Maybe it's the way Tivo hijacked the Linx kernel?
Maybe it's the media conglomerates ceaseless efforts to charge for every-single-viewing opportunity and location combination.
Maybe it's the media conglomerates long history of discouraging private use at all costs.
Or maybe it's the media conglomerates long history of discouraging the right of resale at all costs.
It's important to note anyway you look at it it's a win for open source projects. The re-use isn't very palatable, but hey some good with some bad.
http://www.maxineudall.com/2010/02/should-economists-be-sued-for-malpractice.html
Just make sure to pay your patent license fees, you cock smoking tea baggers!
btw, doesn't VLC violate the DMCA? libdvdcss2 breaks css, doesn't honor the prohibited options, and can stream to disk and transcode video (even straight off of an encrypted dvd).
So, does this release strip out dvd support as well as most supported formats? Are they going to release it in the US?