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- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26And as of 6 days ago, "Reading a DVD with VLC or mplayer is illegal in France"
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| Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with
| CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a
| software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or
| mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library.
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http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2006/12/30/reading-a-dvd-with-vlc-or-mplayer-is-now-illegal-in-france/
Microsoft was lobbying in France to establish this law. Fight for your freedom. - nazsco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6moron, M$ has nothing to do with it.
and if they had the same lobbyists there that they have in the US, they wouldn't be in such a bad position there with their monopoly.
RIAA, and the equivalents, are the satan of choice for this one.
The same people that SELLS license to online radio, but forbids them to let you to skip a damn song. Genius. - cynicist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6All you do is bash Linux / Open Source articles. If you hate them so much, stop looking at the Linux section ok?
- ahill7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Although only mentioned in passing at the bottom of the article, a great package that works wonders is Tovid. It has a nice python based GUI front-end if you like, or can build great DVD's including menus and such from the command line. Easily obtainable through Yum (I think its in the Livna repo), and it is pretty speedy.
- mcrules, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I used to worry about converting Divx to DVD and spending ages converting the movie and burning etc. A better solution is just go into your local store and pick up a cheap Divx player and burn your movie as a data disk. I am from the UK and argos has a model for 29.99. You can fit more than one move on a 4.7GB disk and its quicker than encoding.
- astrobat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good article, clear and well put together. I have previously taped xvids etc. to a vhs tape to give to family. Now with this guide the old vhs player can hit the bin.
Thanks - BigBadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks! That works quite nicely, actually. Almost forgot about ffmpeg.
- avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There should be more of this... nice Ma and Pa grade guide.. nice simple.. effective, well done!
- inkubux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2mandvd is way better than Dvdstyker IMHO
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=38347 - CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3For command-line stuff, like if you have ssh to a fast server to do the work rather than your laptop at work, try AviToVob http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/wiki?AviToVob
But that doesn't have all the cool authoring like menus and splash screens. But I have personally found that I just want the show to start playing. - BigBadger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is a rather spiffy-keen guide.
- nazsco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2> But that doesn't have all the cool authoring like menus and splash screens. But I have personally found that I just want the show to start playing.
damn yeah! - secleinteer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For us CLI users, http://smorgasbord.net/node/166 might be useful. It's old, but still works for me.
- tomvendetta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Any tutorials on how to do this on Windows?
- johnstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I right click on the avi and run a Nautilus script easy "like Sunday morning?"
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=439
http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=435
good guides there ^^^^ - ogilvie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Both programs needed are available for windows.
- EnterDaMatrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I was able to do this much easier a few weeks ago using a program called Devede. ( http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html ) It's a really simple interface with resolution and aspect options as well as NTSC/PAL. It's open source and available in most respositories (I got it from Ubuntu). Worked perfectly with a 700mb Divx Borat. Output was 1.5 and the quality impressed my family.
- jeremycobert, on 10/12/2007, -11/+11"Fight for your freedom"
I think you may have scared off most of our French readers when you said the word "fight"
you should have told them to protest this instead of fighting. - Rekutyn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Interesting that France recently ruled against Apple in their DRM issues.
- AntiBodies, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0For Windows only, but Open Source and unlimited, try DVD Flick
http://dvdflick.sourceforge.net/index.php
Doesn't have option to create an Interactive Menu though but good software.. I found that Nero Vision couldn't burn a video in Panavision 2.35:1 (kept converting it to 4:3 all the time) and this software did the trick - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+9With this kind of stuff how can you take the French for serious?.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1it much easier to buy the used dvd of your favorite movies on amazon or something
-- Tony
-- http://www.ashareware.com - pabster, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3They all suck, IMHO.
Putting together a DVD in Linux is about as exciting and easy to do as getting a tooth pulled.
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