Re: Lindows DVD player and xine

hi James,

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 20:02, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I don't think anyone is against Lindows. It gives linux more publicity 
> as a desktop operating system which is good in my view. I have seen the 
> diff files between our xine-ui and theirs. Are there any differences in 
> xine-lib ?

they told me xine-lib was not modified.


> One thing I would really like is if Lindows have made some sort of 
> agreement paying royalties for the DVD parts of Lindows, maybe they 
> could get us a copy of the DVD standards. ;-)

:)


> I know writing libdvdnav is kind of fun without having any standards 
> documents, but it would be nice to be able to find out how close we 
> actually are!

i have no idea of how close we are, but i think it's probably like what
i heard from a wine developer once: it doesn't matter if we implement
only 80% of the standard (or Win32 API) if these are the only parts
needed to run 99.99% of the applications...

regards,

miguel




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