DVD for Linux

platinum wrote to us with the news that folks at the Internationale Funkausstellung in Berlin are showing a board for Linux that will allow DVD under Linux. Specs for the board are on the site, and the board should be availible towards the end of the year-December, probably.

Comments

Re:Now I'm glad I waited

[webslacker]

I bought my computer with DVD, and after the first 2 months of playing scifi movies in the corner of my monitor nonstop, I hardly ever use it for movies now. However, one really nice thing about DVD drives is that because of its improved ability to read, it can read off of CDRW's and cheap, low-quality CDR's (the almost transparent kind) that regular CD-ROM drives may have trouble with.

My advice is to get DVD. It's not much more expensive than a CD-ROM, and although you're probably not going to use the extra functionality all the time, it's nice to have it there when you want/need it.

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[Signal 11]

December?! For the love of god, don't they know the world is going to come to an end at the end of this year?!

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Re:Software DVD for Linux?

[dirty]

Already happened. I forget the URL but someone managed to disassemble the instructions for CSS authentication. From what I understand it has since been converted to C. Now they are working on cracking the encryption on the MPEG stream itself. I think AC3 could pose a serious problem though, as IIRC AC3 is patented while CSS is not (there already is an AC3 library for Linux though). For movies that contain a standard PCM track that wouldn't be a problem, but how many actually do?