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. > >>>> > >>>> Evan > >>>> > >>>> ------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive > >>>> Reporting > >>>> Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > >>>> by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > >>>> Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Freevo-users mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net > >> email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for > >> open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over > >> 75%! Publish reports on the web. 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