[desktop-discuss] licensed codecs available

[James Cornell]

secret squirrel wrote:
> i tried lifewithsolaris vlc repo and had varying luck - 1 dvd of 3 that i tried played. not so good
>
> more disappointment came whilst reading:
> http://www.osnews.com/story/8218
> an interview of ceo from fluendo saying dvd player would be out imminently - however this article was 4 years old and the are still humming the same tune
>
> it seems sun is in pretty tight with nvidia - maybe they could strike a deal with nvidia dvd codecs?
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder.html
>   
Won't happen since not all systems have NVIDIA equipment.  Call it a
perk or something, but NVIDIA makes a definite killing swaying people at
their chips.  If it were available (Without a contract) to people who
bought systems from Sun with ANY NVIDIA components, I'm sure it could
happen, but for other platforms, it's a SOL situation.

No MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV, VC9 or Bluray rom support will limit the future of
Solaris.  Depending on a foreign body to deliver such things is not
going to work, I guessed this would happen when I first saw Fluendo
since they are primarily in the business to cater ala carte to Linux heads.

James