discuss: DVD HOWTO overhaul
Subject:
Re: DVD HOWTO overhaul
From:
David Jao ####@####.####
Date:
9 Jan 2004 03:28:46 -0000
Message-Id: <20040109032844.GA11395@dominia.org>
The existing DVD HOWTO states: "The purpose of this is to provide step
by step instructions on getting DVD movies to play in Linux...." and I
intend for any replacement HOWTO to stay within those bounds.
I will be happy to accept the assistance of your documentation (or any
other assistance), but I think overlap between our projects is easy to
avoid. It is natural to divide roles so that your HOWTO focuses on
content production and my HOWTO focuses on movie watching.
-David
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004, Devin Watson wrote:
> David -
>
> I am working on a new HOWTO right now that partially crosses the path of
> the DVD HOWTO. Mine focuses mostly on video capture, editing, and
> post-production up to making DVDs. Perhaps some of my documentation might
> help?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Jao ####@####.####
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:03 PM
> To: ####@####.####
> Subject: DVD HOWTO overhaul
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I emailed this proposal to ####@####.#### yesterday and I was told
> that I should post it here.
>
> The LDP's DVD howto at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DVD-HOWTO.html is:
>
> 1) outdated (over three years old);
>
> 2) unmaintained (the author is listed as http://www.linuxvideo.org/, but
> this web site is unaccessible);
>
> 3) not really freely licensed: modifications require author approval;
>
> 4) no longer even remotely accurate: people now use mplayer, xine, or
> ogle, + libdvdcss, to play dvds. No one uses oms/decss anymore. OMS
> itself hasn't been maintained in years. Furthermore, the software
> referenced in the current DVD HOWTO is hosted at cvs.linuxvideo.org,
> which like the web site is unaccessible.
>
> Because of legal barriers (DMCA etc.), no linux distribution works with
> DVDs out of the box. A lot of new linux users will look to the internet
> for information on how to play DVDs in linux. Many of them will look to
> the LDP for this information. The current DVD HOWTO does linux users a
> disservice.
>
> I propose that the LDP discard the existing DVD HOWTO entirely and
> replace it with a new HOWTO that is relevant to this century. Normally I
> would have suggested updating the existing HOWTO instead, but in this
> case the existing HOWTO has no usable material and would not be
> desirable to keep anyway because of its license restrictions.
>
> I will happily volunteer to write a new (GNU FDL licensed) DVD HOWTO to
> replace the existing one. I believe I am reasonably qualified for this
> task, since I am the author of the DVD-media-based Linux Digital
> Fansubbing Guide (http://dominia.org/djao/dvdsub.html), and I have
> published general interest articles before in Linux Gazette
> (http://www.linuxgazette.net/issue35/jao.html).
>
> Comments / questions / suggestions / counterproposals welcome,
>
> -David
>
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