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First DVD player for Linux

31 March 2000 18:46 by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny

InterVideo Inc. announced today that it will soon release software based DVD player/decoder for Linux operating system. Program, called as LinDVD, finally gives a legal solution for Linux users who want to watch their DVD movies with their operating systems.

Lack of Linux-based DVD software was one of the main reasons for people to develop programs like DeCSS that would decrypt DVDs' encryption code called CSS.

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