Allegedly, on or about 11 January 2016, Fernando Cassia sent: > Call me old fashioned, but I prefer a static, single binary to perform > a simple task like playing a mp3 file - you know, the Unix way, do one > thing and do it self-cointained.
There's some logic to that, but all some illogic. Would you have yet another binary program to play wav files, another for oggs, another for flac, and have to call the right one for each audio file you want to play? Or would you use the one player for any type of audio file, and let it make use of the appropriate codec for the file? The idea of having a common codec for handling, say mp3 files, has merit in itself, along the lines you're promoting for the binary player. If half a dozen programs all use the same codec file, that's more people debugging and improving a codec. Personally, I think that there's far too many different types of media file to have a single binary player that handles them all. There would be poorly supported ones that coders didn't really place much priority on. And I certainly wouldn't want to have to use a plethora of different binary players for each different audio filetype. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Linux servers are always being dæmonised... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
