Am 03.06.2013 13:22, schrieb edmund:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:09:38 +0200
> ttoine <tto...@ttoine.net> wrote:
> 
> I am strongly agaist it.
> VLC uses closed/hidden codecs not vailable for other programs and
> therefore alone it should not be used at all.

What would that be? Cannot find any blobs in the source-download.

> In addtion to that it fucks up the sample rate on a regular basis if
> one wants to use music with other then the standard sample rate.

Really? Never noticed that at least not for rates such as 48KHz or
32KHz. Anyway it plays anything the way it is played at anyones
computer, so it can serve as something like a reference. To use uncommon
samplerates I would use Software like MHWaveedit. Having uncommon
samplerates in end-user formats like OGG or MP3 makes no sense anyway....

HZN

> 
> Edmund
> 
>> VLC is imho the best player we can find for Ubuntu Studio users. It
>> can read everything from everywhere, on nearly all drivers (jack, and
>> more included).
>>
>> If we should replace the default multimedia player for a serious one
>> in Ubuntu Studio, I am for VLC.
>>
>>
>> Antoine THOMAS
>> Tél: 0663137906
>>
>>
>> 2013/6/3 Len Ovens <l...@ovenwerks.net>
>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, June 2, 2013 10:43 am, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote:
>>>> One more thing about Xine: In a default install of Ubuntustudio,
>>>> I was able to play H264/mp4 video in Xine without installing
>>>> extra codecs, thanks to the ffmpeg version used.
>>>>
>>>> If there is a policy that gstreamer-ffmpeg can't be shipped by
>>>> default
>>> but
>>>> the underlying ffmpeg can be, that's inconsistant. I know that
>>>> sort of decision gets made upstream, but it creates a default
>>>> install that can't do it's default job if enforced strictly, due
>>>> to the nature of current
>>>> cameras and audio recorders.
>>>>
>>>> A multimedia distro without codecs can't play most media
>>>> distributed by windows users or commericial websites. Much more
>>>> seriously, it also can't play ORIGINAL media produced by a
>>>> majority of midrange video cameras and even audio recorders.
>>>
>>> We have tried to ship with everything needed. So we added the
>>> libav-extra set of packages. As far as I know We just hadn't
>>> thought of the gs packages.
>>>
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