Re: mpeg4 and other proprietary formats

["Christopher Giroir" <user=1544@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Dec 15, 2007 9:10 AM, jbk <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Yes, but in my original post I noted that that is what I 
> already do for downloaded media that I keep. And I 
> discovered that I already have installed the above named 
> interpreters. I was under the impression that I could not 
> even do that in F8 any longer. So help me with the logic here. 
> Redhat and some other distributions will not include in 
> their base distributions the codecs for interpreting 
> proprietary formats and now point you to a for pay licensing 
> entity for these interpreters. But, can you get a license 
> for libdvdcss, the most commonly used interpreter? Most 
> personally  owned video cameras use proprietary codecs only 
> available for another OS. Buying a license to view what I 
> already own does not seem legitimate. 
> 
> Jim K-R