On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:04:31PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > I'm looking at blender again and it appears that the reason it won't > load a movie for me is because the Fedora 10 version was compiled > without ffmpeg support. > > WTF? Certain libraries trigger license or patent issues in some countries, and so Fedora won't package them. As a result, they must compile Blender without a critical feature. > mplayer without jack support and blender without ffmpeg support. > > I hope they fixed both in Fedora 11. Don't bet on it. > Do all the distros have this policy? No. Several distributions have a more relaxed policy. Hunt around. Some distribution communities also provide a secondary repository for restricted formats or libraries. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
