F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 06:16 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 05:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > >This is the same stuff/error that kills vlc from building when compiling
> > > from source.  It asked for ffmpeg, I got that and installed it, it then
> > > complains about ffmeg-devel and I get it and install it and it still
> > > complains about not having it.   I know I can get vlc from livna and I have
> > > done that, but I wanted to build it from source so I can easily update, but
> > > it does not work :(
> > >
> > >Try to install it via yum.  Enable livna or freshrpms and install it from
> > > there.  I guess it might be the best way?
> > 
> > Someone said livna was up to kino-1.3.0, but all I can see is 1.2.0, and it 
> > insults our intelligence by needing that worthless POS pulseaudio.
> > 
> > Put me on a list so you can let me know when pulseaudio works.  Or if it now 
> > works in some private lab setting, how to make it work on an F8 x86 system.  
> > I nuked that with extreme prejudice when I installed F8, and haven't had a 
> > lick of trouble with my audio since.  AFAIC its just another aggravation 
> > foisted off on us to remind us this is a "bleeding edge" distro and that we 
> > should not ever expect it to "just work".
> ----
> I think that you completely misunderstand the point of pulseaudio but
> that is your prerogative but it's unfair for you to spread the FUD
> 
> I'm sure it will come as a shock to you to find that pulseaudio is also
> included in Ubuntu.

I didn't see that it was installed by default. I see it "unchecked" in
the Kubuntu package manager, and I just left it that way. <grins> Ric