DVD-Video Under Linux

| 4:00 PM EST | MC4060

DVD copy protection: Content Scrambling System (CSS)

  • A technical introduction to CSS and an overview of the ongoing legal battle to allow distribution of non-commercial DVD players
  • The current Linux software efforts and open issues
  • How applications and Linux distributions are handling the legal issues involved

DVD-Video specifics: Menus and navigation

  • An overview of the DVD-Video standard
  • Reverse engineering efforts and their implementation status
  • Progress of integration into Linux media players