[CentOS] webcam program for continuous recording.

On 09/30/2014 03:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 9/29/2014 7:08 PM, g wrote:
>> i did find a link at gofree.com that lead to videolan.org, which lead
>> to rpm.pbone.net, where i found binary rpms for fedora and other os's,
>> but none for centos.
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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. 
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> 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.
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> 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 now considered dead, and no longer updated, and in fact these binaries 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.
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NUX does the vlc suite for CentOS 6 - works just fine.
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