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It can be used via Amarok, Dragon Player or Banshee.

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For openSUSE Leap 42.2 and earlier, applications using GStreamer can use the Fluendo ONEPLAY MP3 decoder, a fully licensed MP3 decoder available free of charge.

There are also free lossless formats like FLAC for archival purposes.įrom openSUSE Leap 42.3 onwards and openSUSE Tumbleweed, MP3 decoding support is included for both FFmpeg (out of the box) and GStreamer (install gstreamer-plugins-ugly). (Note that implementation–specific patents or non-standard extensions may still have valid patents.)Ĭonsider using modern and free codec formats like Opus, which provides significantly better quality than MP3 at the same bitrate. The substantial 'core' patents for MPEG Audio Layer 3 ( MP3) have expired, with the licensing program for these patents discontinued by Fraunhofer. If you do not require compatibility with a DVD player, consider encoding videos as Ogg Theora. It offers fully licensed MPEG 2 codecs via GStreamer and has a legal CSS key.

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The Fluendo ONEPLAY DVD player is a proprietary software that can be bought and installed as RPM for openSUSE.

This way one can get all GStreamer-based programs to work with patented mainstream video and audio codecs. For certification, it may not allow copying and has to forbid fast-forward over some DVD tracks which often contain advertising.įluendo offers a complete set of playback plugins for GStreamer, which includes not only MPEG-2, but also MPEG-4, H.264, WMA/WMV and AAC codecs fully licensed and pre-packaged for major distributions like openSUSE. Though the encryption is weak, using any method or device to bypass this is classed as a 'circumvention device' in jurisdictions such as the US, Australia and many EU jurisdictions, and distribution of such software is considered illegal in those jurisdictions and may be prosecuted if it is not certified. There is an open source project called libdvdcss that bypasses this encryption. In addition, region-coded DVDs are encrypted with the Content Scrambling System (CSS). Some more expensive DVB cards contain an MPEG-2 decoder and at least some of them are supported under Linux.Īll video data on DVDs is usually encoded using MPEG-2. This also affects GStreamer based projects like Totem.Īll DVB video data is encoded using MPEG-2. Even though Kaffeine and Xine are included in the distribution, the required decoder modules cannot be provided, at least not under a free license. This means that MPEG-2 decoders and encoders cannot be part of openSUSE. MPEG-2 patent holders (assembled in the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)) do not provide patent licenses which are compatible with the distribution of free software.

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Patent-encumbered software may be obtained from vendors with licensing deals with the patent holders.

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Some proprietary software and drivers may be available from their respective owners and licensed vendors.

The software violates laws concerning software distribution in jurisdictions where SUSE conducts business.

multimedia-related patents affect a number of free software projects like FFmpeg, MPlayer, xine, LAME, MythTV, lastfm and x264.

The software is providing functionality which is patented and the patent holder is preventing distribution of the software - e.g.

it does not conform to the Open Source definition.

The software is proprietary software, i.e.

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