Fedora TV, the video quandary, and a request for advice (fwd)

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at 0xdeadbeef.com
Thu Apr 3 17:42:58 UTC 2008


On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Luis Villa wrote:

>> d. Miro.  Maybe this is the way to go.  It's packaged in Fedora, so  
>> maybe
>> it's worth having a handful of people set up a Miro channel and  
>> seed the
>> content. We could use some server space in fp.o as seed space, I  
>> would
>> think.  I have yet to play with Miro personally, though.
>
> Note that last time I tried to install Miro on Fedora, it was broken;
> all the default videos are in non-free codecs so Miro itself ran but
> no video worked (and I seem to recall it failed badly.) Have not tried
> it of late, though.

They are just now adding gstreamer support.  That will help at least  
with some of that.

--Chris




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