Re: Upgrading from FC4 to current Linux
Jarod Wilson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure,gmane.comp.video.video4linux |
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On Oct 2, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Andy Walls wrote: >> Video used to be easy, plug in the capture device, install xawtv >> via rpm, and >> use. However, recent versions of Fedora simply don't work, even on >> the same >> hardware, due to /dev/dsp no longer being created and the >> applications like >> xawtv or tvtime still looking for it. > > (Non-emulated) OSS was ditched by the linux kernel folks long ago. > And > I thought xawtv and tvtime were abandon-ware. Yeah, seems that way. Though Devin's been talking about maybe starting up a new tvtime maintenance tree, which Fedora would be happy to contribute to and track... (nudge, nudge, Devin ;) >> The people who will be using this are looking for hardware which is >> still made >> and sold new, and software which can be installed by a support >> person who can >> plug in cards (PCI preferred) or USB devices, and install rpms. > > rpmfusion, ATrpms, and I even think Fedora have MythTV available now. > mplayer is probably also available from 2 of those 3 resources. MythTV and mplayer are both only in RPM Fusion and ATrpms. Both rely on ffmpeg, which is no-go for Fedora itself. > For any open source software that implements video and audio decoders, > you will need to investigate if you must pay someone licensing fees to > use the decoders you need to meet your usage requirements. Fedora > has a > mechanism in place by which you can pay for the non-free codecs, IIRC. Sort of. If you're using something gstreamer-based (like totem). Fedora used to have codeina (formerly codec-buddy) that would point you at Fluendo's site for some gstreamer codec plugins you could buy. The current world order is PackageKit with a codec plugin that tries to find a plugin that provides the codec in your configured yum repos. Can't recall if it points at Fluendo if nothing is found... -- Jarod Wilson [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html