xine on FC3

[Jamon Camisso]

Paul King wrote:
> I finally have xine working on Fedora Core 3, but it required a bunch of
> RPM files which I found in various nameless, faceless RPM distro sites.

Nameless/faceless meaning obscure, or meaning obfuscatory so as to not 
name the site? freshrpms has FC3 xine rpms, and their repositories (for 
various distros/FC versions) integrate with most of the common package 
management systems on the different versions of FC.

> I have had some problems with sound (it would cut out when I stop and
> restart a video).
> 
> Right now I am watching an AVI-format video called "Computer Networks:
> The Heralds of Resource Sharing", copied from a 1970s film made by
> ARPANet. Ironically, while this AVI is in a now-obsolete Windows format,
> it *only* seems to be playable in Linux. This is not true for AVI files
> in general. Normally, Windows Media Player will complain about some
> resource not being found, but play it anyway. But Media Player doesn't
> even know what this file is.

That depends on the actual codecs in use within the file. If I 
understand it correctly, avi is more of a container for audio and video 
data than it is an indicator of the compatibility of said data -- the 
internally interleaved (audio video interleave) streams can be encoded 
in whatever codec you like.

> Right now, a person is drawing a network diagram, and explaining why
> IMPs were favoured over direct 50-kilobit connections. Later they will
> discuss TIPs and timesharing. The film is a true museum piece, but
> everything they say about the impact on society and the quantum leaps in
> technological advances appear to hold true today.

Where does one find this video (if it is freely available that is)? I 
have no idea what the preceding paragraph means (in technical terms), 
but I find historical accounts of technology (and things and events in 
general) are always always always interesting and can usually shed no 
small amount of insight into current trends and technology.

Jamon
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