2014-04-21, 20:43
(2014-04-19, 19:23)Koying Wrote: Problem is that DTS/DD is the tip of the can of worms. 99% of the codecs we use are to be licensed (think MP3 for example, or whatever we soft-decode), so if we wanted to be virginal white to enter a store, XBMC would be an empty shell...This is not an insurmountable problem.
Media players on the Google Play store faced a similar challenge when Dolby started exorbitantly charging for DTS licenses in mid-2013. They got around that limitation by removing DTS support in the application and then supporting external codec libraries. So you would install MXPlayer or Diceplayer as normal from the Google Play store, then in the configuration settings, define the location of the libffmpeg.so library on your sdcard, dropbox, etc. XBMC could do the same thing.
Note that this isn't just my theory as to what would be acceptable-- they actually do this. It's allowed.
