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Notes On The Future of Video on Linux

Posted by timothy on from the must-be-visible-and-moving dept.

Dina's Dream points out two interesting articles currently running on LinuxPower, and linked from Gnotices (GNOME news site) as well. "The first article is a really good summary of the current state of affairs of video under Linux and the direction we should take. Questions are bounced back between a few very knowledgeable people, including GStreamer developers, SGI people and Alan Cox. The second article is a set of lessons learned by Chris Pirazzi while working at SGI. Chris was involved in a lot of Video API programming at Silicon Graphics, and raises a few very good points based on his experience. All people even remotely working on video drivers or software should read these points and take them to heart."

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  1. Re:My experiences with Linux by Steveftoth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Personally, I've never had problems with RedHat installs (YMMV), the only time I ever have problems with *nix system is when I don't know where the files are that allow you to configure the system. Since every distribution of linux, BSD and Solaris all seem to be a little different in their config.

  2. rebooting to watch movies by rodolfo.borges · · Score: 2, Funny

    Funny.
    I also reboot my computer to watch movies, but in the opposite direction.
    On my computer, the only things I do is to play games (mainly quake3 and total annihilation) and watch movies and music.
    I usally run windows, but when I want to watch a movie, I just can't face the crappy windows media player. (Yes, I tried others. bsplayer, microdvd, etc. no one satisfied me.)
    Then I boot linux to watch it on MPlayer, by far the best player i have seen.
    By the way, MPlayer is only avaiable as source code, but I never had any problem compiling it.