http://tjschmitz.com/blog/2005/10/28/dvds-on-suse-10/ It's all about me, right? Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:52:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://tjschmitz.com/blog/2005/10/28/dvds-on-suse-10/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Ted Haeger Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:07:58 +0000 http://cstarsys.com/blog/?p=124#comment-334 A lot of people overlook that there is only one mainstream OS that ships with DVD player capability built in: Mac. Windows doesn't have any native DVD playing capabilities. DVD codecs and player software, such as WinDVD, come from the OEMs. Suddenly Mac makes sense: Apple is actually an OEM that happens to make a the OS that runs on their hardware What does this mean for Linux? Seems that the OEMs who provide the software for DVD could offer choice. Since LinDVD is on its way from the makers of WinDVD, and WinDVD is the primary player distributed by OEMs, this could bode well for Linux. I guess we'll see over time. A lot of people overlook that there is only one mainstream OS that ships with DVD player capability built in: Mac. Windows doesn’t have any native DVD playing capabilities. DVD codecs and player software, such as WinDVD, come from the OEMs. Suddenly Mac makes sense: Apple is actually an OEM that happens to make a the OS that runs on their hardware
What does this mean for Linux? Seems that the OEMs who provide the software for DVD could offer choice. Since LinDVD is on its way from the makers of WinDVD, and WinDVD is the primary player distributed by OEMs, this could bode well for Linux.
I guess we’ll see over time.

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