VLC Hits the Device Market 159
JoeBorn writes "VideoLAN has long been known as a mature open source project for video playback and transcoding on the PC. Now, Neuros and Texas Instruments have sponsored a port of VLC to their next generation open set-top box. The idea is to allow developers to easily create interesting plug-ins for recording and transcoding applications for the set-top box which will automate functions previously requiring a PC, like formating recordings for a portable player or streaming to another device on the LAN or the Internet, etc."
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I know giant fighting robot anime that I watch look like crap in VLC when compared to MPC+CCCP, and would hope that VLC would fix that before they start porting it all over the place.
technology has never been the barrier here. (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's hoping that once this box is ready, it's still legal to buy one and plug it in.
Re:Like Tivo Hijacked Linux? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm afraid you're wrong; the purpose of the GPL was to allow the user to take back control of their systems; the GNU manifesto, predating GPLv2 even states:
patent license fees (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:How open? (Score:1, Insightful)
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Re:Like Tivo Hijacked Linux? (Score:4, Insightful)
The fact that there was some weakness in the way that
RMS tried to make them "play nice" doesn't alter this.
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Re:Like Tivo Hijacked Linux? (Score:3, Insightful)
Doesn't work? Then just f*cking fix it! (Score:2, Insightful)