“Gad Berger…is the leader of the LSDVD project, whose goal
is to bring a fully functional DVD player/decoder to the Linux
operating system. Dave Klint and Paul Volcko are developers for the
project.“
“Linux.com: How would you define the state of DVD support for
Linux at the moment?”
“Gad Berger: As of last night, there has been quite a turn of
events. Currently, there is an open source AC-3 decoder, written by
Aaron Holtzman, and for MPEG-2 decoding, you can use mpeg2player.
What’s kept the Linux community in the dark has been the Trade
Secret encryption scheme CSS (Content Scrambling System).
I’m not sure where this will lead DVD development in Linux, or
for that matter in industry, but now it’s more of a “let’s wait and
see what happens.”