Re: [Fsfe-uk] Open Standards-based DVD Authoring

[Kevin Donnelly]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:12, Neil Darlow wrote:
> Not off-the-shelf but everyone would benefit from a software player
> supporting full DVD features using Ogg/Theora/Vorbis and someone could
> always make the design of a hardware player (using readily available
> parts, as I described in another post) available for free.

It would indeed be interesting to put together a "reference implementation" 
using readily available bits (and keep it updated as the bits go out of 
production).  If you put together a spec, I'd like to try it out!

> We can't promote the use of open formats if there are no means of using
> them to replace proprietary or patent-encumbered ones.

Very true.  

Having some sort of easy toolstream for doing a Theora DVD (a Theoriser?) 
would be attractive.

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Kevin Donnelly

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