[plug] Open source DVD playback

[John Knight]

Then this has to be taken care of in the executable. Instead of it just 
decrypting it in order for it to play, the executable should be able to act 
as a player that doesn't fast-forward through the warnings etc. Then all we 
have to do is design a GUI around it and stick in the necessary video code 
in so that we can watch them, depending on what OS you're using.

This way the DVD consortium could have complete control on how the players 
behave and could also make sure that they ARE JUST PLAYERS if you get my 
drift.


>Because the reason the DVDs are encrypted in the first place, is so the
>DVD consortium has control over what people do with the DVDs.
>
>By only licensing the decryption code to people who pay a license fee and
>sign a contract, they are able to:
>
>a) receive MORE money via the licensing fees
>b) ensure that those players that are created are written so that people
>    cannot fast forward past the advertising, and cannot export the stream
>    to disk in another format (such as divx) easily.
>
>If they were to release a closed-source library for people to write their
>own players with, they would lose that control, and if you have been
>following the court cases at all, you would realise that the MPAA and RIAA
>are trying to cling onto their control for as long as they can.
>
>  - Matt
>
>


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