Re: [LAU] state of multimedia

On Thu, 07 May 2009 08:04:27 +0700
Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> >> Jack is included in fedora core IIUC so I have no idea why anyone
> >> would compile mplayer without jack support.
> >>
> >
> > Why not ask them? I imagine you'd find either some bug, or they
> > wanted to promote some other audio interface, or they've made it an
> > optional package.
> >
> >
>
> There are no major bugs with jack and mplayer has had working jack
> support for over 5 years now. If it's a political decision then
> that's a pretty big call to make. I didn't find any optional packages
> with yum search.

In my experience mplayer and the likes is compiled without jack support
on almost any distro, I guess mainly because jack is a pretty
specialised application. Most users of mplayer won't need it, most
packagers won't know it. It's as simple as that.

--Philipp
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Received on Thu May 7 08:15:01 2009