Notes On The Future of Video on Linux

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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Re:DivX ;-)

[Foxman98]

You know what. Bullshit. I'm sorry - I see this comment all the time and in all the time that I've been using windows I have *never* had a problem with my .dlls. This includes a win2k machine in heavy use every day, 7 days a week, for 2 years without a reload. And you know what? It ran just fine...

Ok, don't get me wrong. I love linux just as much as everyone else here does, I use it all day long at work, by choice. But I must say that installing software, in general, is a pain in the ass. Am I blaming anyone? no. Is microsoft the answer? no. But they sure as hell do have the installation part down pat.