6 May
2009
6 May
'09
11:03 p.m.
James Cameron wrote:
But I chose to install blender from a system that is setup to use the
non restricted packages and instead I get a restricted version. Why is a
restricted version given priority over a non restricted version?
There are no major bugs with jack and mplayer has had working jack
support for over 5 years now. If it's a political decision then that's a
pretty big call to make. I didn't find any optional packages with yum
search.
Fedora is hardly a dumbed down distribution. IMO it's most likely a
problem with the people who package for multimedia on Fedora but it
could be symptomatic of a more institutionalised problem where Linux
Multimedia is not at the same level that we can see with Linux Audio
across the board.
I'm wondering if this could be partly due to the long term affect of the
annual LAC on the LAD community?
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:36:01AM +0700, Patrick
Shirkey wrote:
Obviously. But if one installs ffmpeg from one of the reccomended yum
repostitories and the version of blender that is installed is not the
one that is compiled against ffmpeg then it just makes things confusing
and annoying for an average user.
The annoying thing is I already have ffmpeg
package installed and I
assumed that if I have that package then I should also get a version of
blender compiled to use it.
Yes, if you compile blender.
What's the
point of making a non ffmpeg
blender that has priority over a compatible version if the ffmpeg
packages are already installed?
Priority? What priority? You're in control. If you want to install
Blender from source, it would use your ffmpeg package. If you choose to
install Blender from a restricted distribution, you get those
restrictions.
Jack is
included in fedora core IIUC so I have no idea why anyone would
compile mplayer without jack support.
Why not ask them? I imagine you'd find either some bug, or they wanted
to promote some other audio interface, or they've made it an optional
package.
To me it just
highlights the state of multimedia support in Fedora and
possibly other OS's where there is still a level of disconnect that IMO
has been overcome in the LAD community and is shown by the people who
package the audio apps.
On the other hand, it simplifies the packaging, and gets the packages
out there in some form that basically works. It might not work to the
level of excellence that we demand. A dumbed down distribution.