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Re: Re: RedHat 5.2 (DVD support)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter B)
Mon Oct 19 12:07:06 1998
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From: "Peter B" <azenomei@ticnet.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:04:50 -0500
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From: Kevin M. Myer <myer@mail.elanco.k12.pa.us>
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Date: Monday, October 19, 1998 10:41 AM
Subject: <OFF> Re: RedHat 5.2 (DVD support)
>Hi,
>
>From the research I've done on DVD (I was originally going to get one
when
>I built my box), DVD support for Linux is going to be a long time in
>coming. While conceptually, support for such drives that support
DVD-RAM
>for example isn't difficult, across the board support for DVD stuff
won't
>come soon. All standards things aside, entertainment moguls are
>supposedly releasing copies of movies that will only work in certain
>geographic regions - ie your DVD drive (or card that does the MPEG
stuff)
>was made on the east coast and thus will read only movies encoded for
the
>east coast. I can't validate that and it would seem silly to me to do
>that, since I'm liable to buy hardware from California over the
Internet
>(and I live in PA). But it would strike me as something the
entertainment
>business would do - require some sort of localization chip to make
>something work. I guess that all really does boil down to standards -
>until something becomes standard, its hard to offer more than
proprietary
>support fo it.
>
>Feel free to correct me - I'm in no way an expert on this and perhaps I
>just ran across someone's FUD about this whole subject when I was
>researching the viability of getting DVD hardware support when I was
>building my Linux box.
>
>Kevin
>
According to the booklet that came with my Creative DVD, the encoding
you're talking about is for different countries, a number assigned 1-6.
1 is for the US/Canada and 6 is for China, all by itself. It seems a DVD
disc encoded for region 1 will not be playable in say, Denmark, where
you need encoding number 2..
Region 1: North America
2: Japan, Europe, Middle East, South Africa
3: SE Asia
4: Australia/NZ, South and Central America
5: NW Asia, Africa
6: PRC (China)
This is all copyright crap for movies...as for Linux being slow to pick
up the potenetial of DVd, I damn hope not, as the 17Gb potential for the
discs will not be lost on software makers, especially when re-writable
ones becomes a bit more affordable. The good thing about them now, as
for as the drive goes, is that they are fully compatible with all the CD
formats. I use a Creative one in my linux box; sure, linux hasn't a clue
what the PCI decoder card is, but it can use the DVD drive (ATAPI)
flawlessly...
'Later
Peter
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