LinDVD from

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was a commercial

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for

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for the playback of

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s and other

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files. The latest version supported

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s (UMPCs) and

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s (MIDs), as well as a streaming media and a wider range of standard and high-definition video and audio encoding standards. LinDVD can play DVDs

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with

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(CSS). Certain distributions like

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have included this software in their commercial

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s, and

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is now preinstalling it on their

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systems. Corel removed all information about LinDVD from their webpage and it is no longer supported.

References

External links

LinDVD on wiki.ubuntuusers.de
(German)
InterVideo LinDVD
Software DVD players Corel software Linux DVD players {{multimedia-software-stub

See also

References

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