Fred, John,
On 09/29/2014 09:30 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:08:18PM -0500, g wrote:
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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:
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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I did find centos6 rpm's for VLC at rpmforge, but that repository is now considered dead, and no longer updated, and in fact these binaries were 3-4 years old.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