Fred, John,
On 09/29/2014 09:30 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:08:18PM -0500, g wrote:
<<<<>>>>
so, it looks like if i want vlc for centos, i will have to try
compile source. not looking forward to such right now.
Oh no vlc definitely can be had in a Centos/RHEL binary, did you
look at rpmfusion?
On 09/29/2014 09:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 9/29/2014 7:08 PM, g wrote:
<<>>>>
>> so, it looks like if i want vlc for centos, i will have to try
>> compile source. not looking forward to such right now.
>
> the problem is, VLC steps all over a bunch of patents for various
> media formats, like mp3, mp4, which are heavily constrained by
> patents.... players are supposed to pay royalties, so legitimate US
> business at least can't distribute working binaries of free
> opensource implementations.
>
> I did find centos6 rpm's for VLC at rpmforge, but that repository is
> now considered dead, and no longer updated, and in fact these
> binaries were 3-4 years old.
thank you for replies.
i did not _look_ at rpmforge, but i did enable it, along with a
bunch of other repos in yumex.
when i ran search, nothing came back.
so, 'dead is, as dead does'. :-D
--
peace out.
in a world with out fences, who needs gates.
tc.hago.
g
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