Not meaning to add fuel to the fire, but; On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Jack Norton wrote:
I hate iTunes with a passion. It is a huge monolithic godlike creature that tries to do everything for me (usually when I don't want it to). It brings my 12" powerbook to a screeching halt (I get beach balled to death), and it doesn't natively support many audio/ video codecs/containers (and isn't that easily extended, which brings up quicktime.... ).
Somebody wrapped ffmpeg in Quicktime, which lets it play almost any imaginable media format: http://perian.org/
Quicktime X isn't too bad compared to the old QT, atleast they're making progress. You can't say the same of iTunes though, I think it's been going downhill since version 7. However, I do hope that when they decide to rewrite it in 64-bit Cocoa ("iTunes X"), they'll make it half as insane as compared to now. It's bound to happen.
Just about the simplest way to play audio on a computer, save for the methods in plan9 :) (I'm _trying_ to get us back on topic...)
Good luck trying to get Plan 9 to play video! -- Anant
