[AG-TECH] Any more H.264 news?

[Douglas Kosovic]

> For Fedora 8 (i386 & x86-64), issue the following:
>   yum update AccessGrid
> 
> which will install the mpeg4/h264 services and a new version of vic.
> 
> Known issues: thumbnails for H.264 and MPEG-4 appear black, but video
> windows are fine. This is because the software scaler that comes with
> FFMpeg has been disabled to avoid a crash in some MMX2 assembly code
> and the old vic scalar doesn't support the required colorspace. I
might
> have a newer version of vic released later in the week if I'm able to
> resolve the issue.


I've put up a new vic RPM (which fixes the above issue) for Fedora 8 and
new AccessGrid and vic RPMs for Fedora 7.


Doug