FC3 and video...

[Benjamin Scott]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, at 7:59am, puissante at biz.puissante.com wrote:
> I just upgraded from FC2 to FC3. Bad idea. I've had endless problems with
> getting the ieee1394 and related modules to work, and also I am no longer
> able to play DVDs through Xine.

  FWIW/FYI: FireWire under FC3 "just worked" for me, but I'm only using it
to talk to my new iPod, not for DV.  I've got a Belkin F5U502 card with an
Agere/Lucent FW323-06 chip (OHCI-compliant).

  For that other stuff, I haven't had a chance to actually try all of it
yet, but

	http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/

appears to cover most of it.

> I am seriously thinking of downgrading back to FC2.

  Try moving to FC3 from RHL 7.3.  Feature shock all over the floor!  ;-)  

> I think part of the problem is that much of the code is not completely
> reworked for FC2 (I pull most stuff from freshrpms and livna through yum.)

  Indeed.  Binary Compatibility Is Hard(TM).

> I think I'll reorganize my workstation so I can have 2 -- or more --
> seperate distros/releases installed.

  Yah, I just did this, too.  If nothing else, it will make my annual
practice of watching Debian fail miserably less intrusive.  :-)

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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