[ Thanks to Alan
Blount for this link. ]
“Linux falls woefully short of other operating systems in
its support for playing DVDs. We interviewed Paul Volcko and
Gad Berger, members of the LSDVD group, who with Dave Klint are
hard at work developing application support for DVD decoding.”
“Moviebone: “What is the scope of the LSDVD project?”
“Paul Volcko: “Well, there will likely be two phases to the
first version of LSDVD. The first phase will be released (open
sourced most likely) once a DVD decoder card is supported under
Linux. This will more than likely just be a GUI that utilizes
whatever API(s) the driver/card vendor supplies. The second phase
will use that same GUI (perhaps with a few tweaks) but will weave
in full software decoding support (MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, CSS) as well
as a custom DVD Navigation API. We have intentions of open sourcing
as much as possible of both the first and second phase (once we
have initial development done) but will more than likely be bound
by some licensing restrictions, since we have every intention of
developing and distributing LSDVD as a fully compliant and licensed
DVD player application.”