FC3 and video...

[Fred]

I am suspicious that the real problem I am having is that my 1394 card
is simply dead -- probably trashed by a static discharge. It hangs under
the kernel it was working without a hitch on before.

Oh well, I'll just buy another. They are *cheap* these days, no sweat
lost.

-Fred

On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:33 -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> 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.  :-)
>