Ken Mays wrote: > Dick asks: > >> And why is songbird so much better than rhythmbox that is provided by >> > gnome already on opensolaris? > > Steve and Brian gave good answers. My answer deals with Rhythmbox being great > for what it does and it came before SongBird publically existed (I've package > maintained Rhythmbox on Sun Solaris 8 before OpenSolaris.org existed and > before it was a official part of Sun JDS). SongBird 0.5RC2 reflects the Apple > iTunes 'look-and-feel' that some iPod music management users may like. > SongBird comes with extensions, iPod support, and many nice features under > one umbrella. SongBird is simply my iTunes contender - but Rhythmbox is still > up there as well. > > James Cornell asks: > >> Supported codecs out of the box? (Add in comments about legal rights >> too if Sun's really concerned about it) Sun's MP3 codec is bundled with >> OpenSolaris/Solaris, right? >> > > The limitations are in the front-end audio tools. The back-end GStreamer 0.10 > audio framework was extended to support the modern audio codecs available > under Linux/BSD. Use audio conversion apps to support the legacy audio > codecs. :o) > > Legacy audio codecs as in: > "8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al au auto avr caf cdda cdr cvs cvsd dat dvms fap > fssd gsm hcom ima ircam la lu mat mat4 mat5 maud mp2 mp3 nist nul null ogg > paf prc pvf raw s3 sb sd2 sds sf sl smp snd sndfile sndt sou sph sw txw u3 u4 > ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox w64 wav wve xa xi" > > ~ Ken Mays > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Kinda funny that essentially every common codec is "legacy"... makes me laugh a bit since they are still in use and are essential to end-user transparency. I really am a tad ticked off about the GPL even more now, a step backwards for all media projects on all non-commercial systems, just pathetic if you ask me. :-(
Getting exceptions for every SINGLE gstreamer plugin, backend, frontend, program, library, what the heck is wrong with the world... sheesh. James
