Opened 13 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#8400 closed enhancement (fixed)
Add libdvdcss, libaacs, libblueray to Media Player/Media System functionality
| Reported by: | SeanCollins | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1 |
| Component: | Audio & Video | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
Just a basic enhancement ticket. Adding these to the base haiku image, would be very helpful, or potentially as a optional package.
Change History (6)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
comment:2 by , 13 years ago
Well, then I must ask the next question. Since inclusion would violate some US law, would making these optional packages hosted outside of the USA as some open source projects are, be a viable alternative. I have seen prompts using ubuntu etc, about installing downloading MP3 codecs etc after a first system start.
More or less just asking if theres is a viable alternative to violating US laws, while mitigating a sorespot in the OS and the current software stack.
follow-up: 4 comment:3 by , 12 years ago
http://ports.haiku-files.org/changeset/1956 - libbluray.
We know something more about the legal issues?
comment:4 by , 12 years ago
Replying to Premislaus:
http://ports.haiku-files.org/changeset/1956 - libbluray.
libbluray alone isn't going to do much for you since it needs to be paired with libaacs in order to actually be able to handle any commercial discs. As far as the legal side of things goes, the situation's still sufficiently precarious in the US that the risk isn't worth it. Unless the DMCA and various other laws that go hand-in-hand with it get repealed (which is extremely unlikely to put it mildly), that's not going to change.
comment:6 by , 9 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
libdvdcss is likely illegal under current DMCA laws. There is currently a petition to the Library of Congress to allow software which "rips" DVDs to be legal in the U.S. but that is still pending. The MPAA is fighting hard to prevent it from becoming legal. It is generally assumed that it is not legal in the U.S., and most software that uses it requires it to be downloaded separately, or are not U.S. based organizations.
Since Haiku, Inc. is a U.S. corporation, we must tread lightly here. This has actually been discussed a couple times on the mailing lists I believe.
c.f. http://www.videolan.org/legal.html
The other two, I don't know much about, at least libaacs appears not to do anything to circumvent DRM, so it is probably legal, and libblueray has very little documentation on videolan's website.