[LAU] state of multimedia

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Fri May 8 13:34:59 EDT 2009


On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:19:27AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:04:31PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > I'm looking at blender again and it appears that the reason it won't  
> > load a movie for me is because the Fedora 10 version was compiled  
> > without ffmpeg support.
> >
> > WTF? 
> 
> Certain libraries trigger license or patent issues in some countries,
> and so Fedora won't package them.  As a result, they must compile
> Blender without a critical feature.

FWIW, blender is available as a precompiled tarball on their web site.
Installation is as simple as untaring it to /opt (or your home directory
even) and adding it to the path. The linux 32 and 64 bit versions on
their website both have ffmpeg built in.  



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