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Re: Encrypted DVD issues

 

When will there be a definite announcement about software for sale for
10.10?

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> Shane Fagan wrote on 25/05/10 15:28:
> >...
> > I noticed that when I double click a DVD movie on the desktop it opens
> > the folder in nautilus. Can we open it in totem instead? It seems like
> > slightly bad behaviour to add an extra click there.
> >
> > Also can we improve the installing of DVD playback? At the moment the
> > user has to find and run the libdvdread4 sh file to get it working and
> > that seems a little difficult to new users. Could we run that script
> > when the user tries to play a DVD that contains encrypted content? Or
> > could we have the fluendo DVD player in the software center and point
> > them to that? It just seems like this is an area we can really improve
> > on.
> >...
>
> Absolutely, this is something we can and should fix in Maverick. We plan
> to be selling one or two bits of commercial software in 10.10, and for
> well-known legal reasons, DVD playback is likely to be one of those.
>
> Perhaps you'd like to start a wiki page about this (linked from
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareHandling>), with a storyboard
> <http://boxesandarrows.com/view/comics-not-just-for> or text description
> of what you think should happen? The starting point would be something
> like "Lauren inserts a DVD for the first time"
> <http://twitter.com/LaurenVanB/status/13624104456>, and the end point
> would be "the DVD starts playing".
>
> - --
> Matthew Paul Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/
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