F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Aug 14 13:16:18 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 05:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> [...]
> >
> >This is the same stuff/error that kills vlc from building when compiling
> > from source.  It asked for ffmpeg, I got that and installed it, it then
> > complains about ffmeg-devel and I get it and install it and it still
> > complains about not having it.   I know I can get vlc from livna and I have
> > done that, but I wanted to build it from source so I can easily update, but
> > it does not work :(
> >
> >Try to install it via yum.  Enable livna or freshrpms and install it from
> > there.  I guess it might be the best way?
> 
> Someone said livna was up to kino-1.3.0, but all I can see is 1.2.0, and it 
> insults our intelligence by needing that worthless POS pulseaudio.
> 
> Put me on a list so you can let me know when pulseaudio works.  Or if it now 
> works in some private lab setting, how to make it work on an F8 x86 system.  
> I nuked that with extreme prejudice when I installed F8, and haven't had a 
> lick of trouble with my audio since.  AFAIC its just another aggravation 
> foisted off on us to remind us this is a "bleeding edge" distro and that we 
> should not ever expect it to "just work".
----
I think that you completely misunderstand the point of pulseaudio but
that is your prerogative but it's unfair for you to spread the FUD

I'm sure it will come as a shock to you to find that pulseaudio is also
included in Ubuntu.

enjoy

Craig




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