Playing licensed DVDs on ubuntu
Small disclaimer:
1. I am a dedicated user of ubuntu and do not criticize this OS while sitting under Windows. It is important.
2. I didn’t write this on Linux blogs, as this is a cross-platform theme.
After my last story about buying gift editions of DVDs, I thought that the topic of hemorrhoids playing them in Linux was not disclosed. Disorder.
Let's start with totem. I don’t know what the mintainers of my beloved distribution were thinking about when they included it in the kit as a player for playing DVDs. What he gets up with the discs is just awful. This is how the “Dawn of the Dead” opens in me:
You can see from the screenshot that I was trying to rewind the movie for some more interesting moment. This had to be forgotten immediately. Also I had to forget about the menu, respectively about the subtitles, the choice of parts and the names of the tracks. This is how the developers of the distribution kit offer me to watch a movie.
Okay. In principle, I rarely use totem, and there are also a lot of players in the repositories. My favorite VLC megaplayer showed me a warning and refused to continue to play. Apparently, there is nothing to watch any license when on the screw a bunch of pirated video.
Next came various mplayer, Ogle and so on. As a result, only gxine opened the DVD normally. I personally never liked this player for its inhuman interface. But he perfectly played the entire movie with rewind, opened the menu, showed additional materials and connected Russian subtitles to them.
Unfortunately, this is not a happy ending. I have a number of other DVDs, which, on the contrary, for some reason, open up nicely in VLC, do not work in other players. In connection with this, a question arose that was voiced in the same previous entry: “Is there really no standard for developing a DVD menu?”
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It turns out there is. A quick search on Wikipedia immediately answered:
“Each developer of DVD equipment or software must first obtain a license for one of the books on DVD specifications from the DVD Format and Logo Licensing Corporation (DVD FLLC - DVD Format / Logo Licensing Corporation). For various DVD formats, there are separate books with format descriptions; Each book contains hundreds of pages and costs about $ 5000 . After obtaining a license for the book, the developer must become a licensee, and this procedure is also paid. Otherwise, the book for which the license was obtained can only be used as reference material, and not to create new programs or equipment.
The DVD specs were originally written in Japanese, and only then were they translated into English for use in America. The translation was confusing and comparable in complexity to legal documents. Today, DVD players from different manufacturers do not always meet the same requirements - all this because different developers understand the existing DVD specifications in their own way. "
From the above, in my opinion, everything becomes clear and clear.
As always, the original is on my blog.
1. I am a dedicated user of ubuntu and do not criticize this OS while sitting under Windows. It is important.
2. I didn’t write this on Linux blogs, as this is a cross-platform theme.
After my last story about buying gift editions of DVDs, I thought that the topic of hemorrhoids playing them in Linux was not disclosed. Disorder.
Let's start with totem. I don’t know what the mintainers of my beloved distribution were thinking about when they included it in the kit as a player for playing DVDs. What he gets up with the discs is just awful. This is how the “Dawn of the Dead” opens in me:
You can see from the screenshot that I was trying to rewind the movie for some more interesting moment. This had to be forgotten immediately. Also I had to forget about the menu, respectively about the subtitles, the choice of parts and the names of the tracks. This is how the developers of the distribution kit offer me to watch a movie.
Okay. In principle, I rarely use totem, and there are also a lot of players in the repositories. My favorite VLC megaplayer showed me a warning and refused to continue to play. Apparently, there is nothing to watch any license when on the screw a bunch of pirated video.
Next came various mplayer, Ogle and so on. As a result, only gxine opened the DVD normally. I personally never liked this player for its inhuman interface. But he perfectly played the entire movie with rewind, opened the menu, showed additional materials and connected Russian subtitles to them.
Unfortunately, this is not a happy ending. I have a number of other DVDs, which, on the contrary, for some reason, open up nicely in VLC, do not work in other players. In connection with this, a question arose that was voiced in the same previous entry: “Is there really no standard for developing a DVD menu?”
')
It turns out there is. A quick search on Wikipedia immediately answered:
“Each developer of DVD equipment or software must first obtain a license for one of the books on DVD specifications from the DVD Format and Logo Licensing Corporation (DVD FLLC - DVD Format / Logo Licensing Corporation). For various DVD formats, there are separate books with format descriptions; Each book contains hundreds of pages and costs about $ 5000 . After obtaining a license for the book, the developer must become a licensee, and this procedure is also paid. Otherwise, the book for which the license was obtained can only be used as reference material, and not to create new programs or equipment.
The DVD specs were originally written in Japanese, and only then were they translated into English for use in America. The translation was confusing and comparable in complexity to legal documents. Today, DVD players from different manufacturers do not always meet the same requirements - all this because different developers understand the existing DVD specifications in their own way. "
From the above, in my opinion, everything becomes clear and clear.
As always, the original is on my blog.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/28573/
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