A popular DVD software app included with Windows PC's and motherboards that is now ported to Linux. Nice.

The floodgates are opening, this is the hole in the dyke that Peter was fingering. Peter's finger can't stay in the dyke for long. Soon the hole will be too big for Peter's finger to keep the wetness for leaking past.

Peter is MS strategy, and the dyke and water are Linux and major software vendors switching to Linux.

Peter, dyke, fingering, fnarr fnarr.

But seriously, this is a start and it makes it easier for non-Linux geeks to switch to Linux. Just put in the cd and you're good to go.

The Eee laptop must get top marks, whatever Linux is on the Eee then that is the one that should be being pushed to non-techies. Keep it simple.

However, no one ever seems to complain that the AntiVirus on the Eee is not active. It's merely a file scanner, it doesn't check files as they are used, or websites are visited.

...I had to download several DVD playback files to get CP DVD playback working properly, and the end result is rather basic. Scratched discs aren't catered for either.

As it's free (and free) and it works well enough, I wouldn't dare complain, but as someone who needs to watch DVD's for a living I wouldn't hesitate to spend a tenner or two on professional playback software.

Maybe if Cyberlink realise that they are selling to the wrong people (netbooks don't have DVD drives), and start selling to us Linux laptop users instead, then maybe they'll get my cash.

using Xine and libdvd-css is a no brainer for linux users, why would i want to pay for a software when i can get a free version that do the same

if Blu-ray decoding comes with it, now that would be news



Videolan (VLC) is better, works on Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris and other operating systems, is GPL (free as in speech), and can play just about any video or sound file you through at it. Why use anything else?

I'd be interested in this if it could...

1) Play Blu-ray movies off the disc without first ripping it to a hard drive.

and

2) Be able to be integrated with MythTV.

Still its good that they're expanding support. Now we just need NvIdia and ATI/AMD to provide HD decoding in Linux on the GPU.

Rob

As probably half of their potential market in the next 3 or 4 years are DIY'ers. Who are building their own bundles. Why don't they find a way of releasing to the general public at a discounted rate to push numbers and drive up acceptance.

will it get hw acceleration out of my mobile gf8 so I can watch hi def stuff on my laptop?
(as nv decided not to support xvmc on gf8m..)

5 years ago, this would have been something but today, there are other better solutions available on most distros that come with the gpl lisence. I wish them the best of luck. The only customer base I see using this are those that buy their machines with a distro pre-installed. apt-get libdvd-css