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For legal reasons this version of xine has limited functionality. Here is
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a list of what has been disabled:
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AC3 and AC4.1 sound decoding. Probably patented. Maybe legal if it is not labeled as XX-Y.
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ASF parsing. Patented.
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Closed Captioning Decoder (EIA-608). Probably patented.
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GSM 610 decoding. Patented.
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MPEG-4 (FFMPEG) codecs. Patented.
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MS Video-1. Used in AVI and ASF. AVI is okay, ASF is not.
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Sorenson video codec. Reverse engineering, no legal expertise.
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Direct Hardware Access. Uncertain legal status.
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Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder. No legal expertise.
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Interplay DPCM Audio Decoder. No legal expertise.
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Interplay MVE File Video Decoder. No legal expertise.
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NES Music File Format. No legal expertise.
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Origin's Wing Commander III MVE format. No legal expertise.
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SPU DVD subtitles. No legal expertise.
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CSS decoding needs extra library (libdvdcss), which is not part of SuSE Linux
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Advanced users can build an RPM package and install also the additional
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"xine-internal" rpm, which contains all protected codecs.
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See also
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http://www.opensuse.org/XINE#Legal_Matters
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