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totem package

  1. Bug #137527
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 137527

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Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) wrote : Re: Totem should notify users about installing libdvdread3 and libdvdcss2 to read encrypted DVD

libdvdcss2 circumvents the CSS encryption found on DVDs. Circumvention is not legal in many countries even if it is for use of legally owned DVDs. A distribution can not make a choice for user when it is legal matter.

This is not same as flashplugin-nonfree. There is no question of legality in case of flash plugin provided by Adobe.

Apart from that, libdvdread3 is already a dependency of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad. Also libdvdnav4 will be a dependency of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, by the time intrepid is released. So Gstreamer, which is default backend for totem, will have full support for playing non-encrypted (region-free) DVDs provided all plugins were installed.