xzgv in Fedora broken? (was: Re: sound problems)

[Hans de Goede]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:51:07 +0530, Rahul wrote:

> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
> > Rahul,
> > 
> > if my memory is not failing, some packages appeared first in ATrpms
> > than if Fedora (livna/rpmfusion): xvidcap, xzgv, xv, etc. I am not 
> > discussing
> > if these packages are useful or not. The fedora version of xzgv was 
> > never able
> > to display the thumbnails correctly, for instance. Why? Because it has 
> > to be compiled with
> > gcc3.
> 
> Was there a bug report filed on this? Again, when problems are in a 
> repository, working together to fix the problem is more of a benefit, 
> compared to have alternative fixed versions in a place, where majority 
> of end users won't benefit from it. If maintainers don't have time, 
> step-in and become co-maintainers and fix the problems instead.

Note I'm looking in to fixing the xzgv thumbnails issue. Why? To show that 
actually reporting problems helps I guess.

Regards,

Hans