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On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:22:23 +0900, daid kahl <daidxor@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2009/10/5 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es>: |
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>> On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:42:22 +0100, Stroller |
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>> <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>>> On 5 Oct 2009, at 15:18, Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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>>> I actually find this a little surprising. I might have thought that |
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>>> the devs might have separated the decryption and playback components: |
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>>> one could imagine it being legal to play back a region 0 DVD in some |
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>>> territories, but not to install or operate encryption "circumvention" |
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>>> software. |
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>> Yes, I agree, USE flags are a bit fuzzy. Even if legality wasn't a |
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>> problem, still it's not accurate to use such a name for an use flag |
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that |
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>> adds support for decryption. It's even funnier when you realize that |
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you |
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>> don't even need to enable it to play all the dvd's (only encrypted |
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ones). |
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>> In such cases, the best thing is to fill an enhancement bug and hope |
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for |
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>> the best. I might do that later if I manager to remember it. |
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> Yeah, I'm agreeing about this notion. Particularly with the legality |
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> issues, there might be some desire to separate watching unencrypted |
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> DVDs from encryption. |
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> I suppose if the enhancement bug is filed, a suggested name for the |
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> new USE flag is something like dvd-crypto. |
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There was already a bug and it's now closed and fixed. Kaffeine now has a |
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css use flag. css has been chosen because already exists and has exactly |
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that purpose, and besides that, the library that does the work and is |
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pushed as a dependency to play encrypted dvds is called "libdvdcss". |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287057 |
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Jesús Guerrero |
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