On Sun, 2018-07-15 at 09:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7.
I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or otherwise) the drivers from CentOS 7.
I've been looking. I keep finding claims that Fedora live CD's exist, but not actual images.
specifically
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
What it actually does is to download Fedora Media Writer which when run downloads the correct image and writes it to a memory stick.
To be clear: flv and avi caused it to complain about the lack of mp4 codecs.
Yes, because MPG codecs are not license free.
Is there something dragon or totem will play out of the box?
Probably WebM and OGG video as they are both patent/license free. If you are looking for something try
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Buck_Bunny_Trailer_1080p.ogv
(that's an open source, royalty free movie using open codecs).
P.