Peter- You can get away with just adding Mplayer and using the freevo-runtime available the on same sourceforge page as the Freevo software. You will just need to untar under freevo/.
Evan On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:44:42 -0500, peter stickney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evan - > > My only qualm with building from source is all the dependencies. I got > through many of them, but am now stuck at Numeric. It says I need lapack [ > i think, some math algorithms ]. I download that source, it says i need the > gcc-fortran package, which i install from the slack cd and it still doesn't > work. I got fairly frustrated fairly quickly. I am no expert, but have > been using slack on the desktop for almost 3 years now. I guess I never had > to work quite this hard to get software running, not to mention having no > python or PVR experience! > > I was open to changing distros for this project if there was one that lent > itself to freevo any better than the last. > > I was looking for an adventure and it looks like I found one! > -peter > > Evan Hisey wrote: > Peter- Not much help on gentoo for you other than you will need a strong > box build it on or have a lot of patiences. VIdalinux is a stage 3 install > of Gentoo and might be a better starting point. I personally have no trouble > at all out of my slackware freevo box. it is an old p3 550 with 128mg ram > with an nvidia card running tv out. I used it with DXR3 for a while but > thought DVDs where nice everything else was abit off. Never did figure out > why. Evan On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:56:57 -0500, Peter Stickney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott - Thanks for the suggestion, I think I will try Gentoo out. I am not > familiar with its usage, but have heard of it before. Any thing I should > consider during installation to make it an easy freevo install? -peter Scott > Serr wrote: > You might think about using a different distro for a freevo box. I know 2 > years ago SuSE was my favorite, but to get mplayer to have everything in it > I had to compile about 15 dependencies in /usr/local and get them all just > right. I was actually trying to write a script to build them all in the > right order. Then I found Gentoo, it seems to be well suited for A/V > projects because of it's dependency structure and "fresh" packages. Gentoo > now has a Freevo .ebuild which works flawlessly too. (Didn't always have > one, and it didn't always work flawlessly) -Scott peter stickney wrote: > A long time slack user, I have just started to look into Freevo. I think I > bit of more than I can chew, I am drowning in source and dependencies and > such. Shawn's idea of a repository is a great one. The "whole shebang" > package would be a nice bonus, but I would be happy with a repository of > packages. -peter Shawn Dowler wrote: > I use Freevo on Slackware 10 and I think it would be most beneficial to > have all the deps seperately compiled and available as packages. I think it > would greatly aid the average slackware user much better than having a huge > package to install for minor upgrades. On the other hand, if you wanted to > pake a single monolithic package then it would be easier to make sure > everything for freevo was compiled against the right versions of everything > else. I've found it much easier to have everything seperate but that's > possibly just because I've compiled all the deps myself and installed then > with checkinstall. I would like to have access to a repository with both > individual packages and a "whole shebang" package so I'd have the choice. > Just some things to think about. Shawn Dowler On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:12:55 > -0600, Evan Hisey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering the best way to pacakge Freevo. Would it be better to build > all teh deps seperately and make it available that way or to build a single > all in one binary? I can see advantages to both. Especially with Slackware > not really having a Dep. tracking system. 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