[hmb29]

in order for SS to make BM open source, i'm pretty sure they would have to strip it of any third party codec's and players they have in it, so I'm guessing it would be Beyond Media Basic after they do that.

DVD Player - isn't it just powerdvd(they probably have a license for it and it would be gone.)
I'm assuming the same for the music player and all the other plugin's they have that come with BM, so it would be like getting a stripped down version or BM Basic as I stated before.

I would also assume, they probably don't have the guys that originally coded BM there anymore and it would take some developers time to open source it.