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GStreamer framework eases development of media applications

Submitted by hauberg on Tue, 2006-01-24 18:27. GStreamer

The team behind the GStreamer media application framework, a library for developers, recently launched its stable series with version 0.10.0, and announced plugins to support files protected by digital rights management (DRM) software and for playback of the widely used MP3 format.

Developers of the framework toiled for 18 months leading up to the new release, which they tout as having improved playback and video seeking functions, support for real-time transport protocol, and fraction-based frame rates, among others.

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Gpl

Submitted by lobais on Wed, 2006-01-25 11:35.

Will gstreamer by compatible with the gpl, if it has drm?

Re: Gpl by Anonymous George

gst-ffmpeg and Fluendo

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2006-01-25 08:16.

There is since a long time a plugin for playing mp3 with gstreamer: gst-ffmpeg. What is the relationship or difference between gst-ffmpeg and Fluendo, just the license issue?

gst-ffmpeg wouldn't be by Anonymous George

Sweet! by Anonymous George

Go back and read the post, by Anonymous George

License

Submitted by WareKala on Wed, 2006-01-25 10:20.

Pretty much nothing else, I guess. The license issue is the most important thing here. But hey, I've never cared about any licenses anyway so this doesn't change anything for me =P
-WareKala

But hey, I've never cared by Anonymous George

DRM?!? by Anonymous George

Remove DRM

Submitted by lobais on Wed, 2006-01-25 05:28.

Yea! We better need software to remove DRM from files. Not to play it.
But then, if a free player can play drm, it must at some point have to media in a raw format, and then you can just make it dump it?

"We better need software to

Submitted by FooBarWidget on Wed, 2006-01-25 07:02.

"We better need software to remove DRM from files."
That would be a violation of the DMCA in the United States. Violation of the DMCA is a criminal act, and can get you AND the software's author in jail.

In my country it is

Submitted by lobais on Wed, 2006-01-25 11:32.

In my country it is perfectly legal to to remove any kind of copy protection, IF it prevent you in playing the media.

DMCA

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2006-01-25 09:09.

Funny how lots of users of FOSS aren't in the US, and so don't need to abid by its ridiculous laws. It certainly wouldn't land me in jail if I decided to implement software to remove DRM and then use it.

Just because you have a ridiculous government, doesn't mean we all do. :P

It certainly wouldn't land

Submitted by ebassi on Wed, 2006-01-25 10:16.

It certainly wouldn't land me in jail if I decided to implement software to remove DRM and then use it.

If you ever do, be sure to never set foot on USA soil then.

See here what could happen.

Debian - Even Hell Freezes Faster. -- seen on #debian-devel

It certainly wouldn't land by Anonymous George

its not different if I were breaking your laws by Anonymous George

Re: its not different if I were breaking your laws

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-01-26 05:50.

>if you break laws you go to jail.

If Sklyarov had done what he did in the US then he'd have broken US law. But he did it in Russia where it was legal. The US court had no right to try him for things done out of its jurisdiction.

Imagine traveling to Iran and being arrested because in the US you drank alcohol, that is illegal in that country. Or if you are a woman, because in the US you walked in public without covering your head. Would you find that fair?

You're looking at this from

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2006-01-25 20:44.

You're looking at this from a very limited point of view.

Let's say it's illegal in the US to walk on the streets naked, but it's perfectly legal in the country Foo Island. I usually walk around naked in Foo Island, but one day I put some clothes on and travel to the US. Should I go to jail?

You see, the US law can only apply to people in the US, doing things in the US. Only some greedy big companies twisted that very simple concept (because they can only buy laws in certain countries, not all of them), and sheep^H^H^H^H^H people like you can't even see it. And you even defend them!

its a usa law, applies to less than 5% of world population by Anonymous George