On 02/12/2014 3:19 PM, flatfish+++ wrote:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:30:03 -0500, Slimer wrote:

On 02/12/2014 11:08 AM, JEDIDIAH wrote:
On 2014-12-02, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 01/12/2014 23:49, flatfish+++ wrote:
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:47:16 +0000, Brian Gregory wrote:

On 01/12/2014 01:37, JEDIDIAH wrote:
On 2014-11-29, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 28/11/2014 16:17, A wrote:
Slimer wrote:
And will likely do a better job of implementing both than GNU/Linux.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/11/27/1347217/windows-10-to-feature-native-support-for-mkv-and-flac?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed




VLC will play both formats in Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. So, BFD.


More than that - install any one of several widely available free codec
packs and any player will play them.


...and those will likely just be the same collection of free software that powers VLC.


Well maybe, but I find more bugs in VLC than I do if I just install
Combined Community Codec Pack and play in Media Player Classic Home Cinema.

VLC tends to be buggy but mPlayer is even worse.
The latest version of VLC has been working fine for me though.
Under Windows 8.1 of course.


The only problem I can remember with the current VLC 2.1.5 was that I
found a video file where seeking back and forth in it totally failed
taking me to somewhere totally different from where I wanted. Media
Player Classic Home Cinema played it perfectly.

Not so long ago I remember many versions of VLC on Windows couldn't even
play an audio CD without crashing. It was like the developers weren't

Sounds like a reversion driven by the fact that it's not 1998 anymore.

1998 is about the last time I directly played a CD.

CDs are still the least expensive way to get high quality sound. M4A
from iTunes and MP3 from 7digital don't cut it for everyone.

Bit-Rot is a big thing with CD these days. People go back to that CD
they bought in the 1980s and find it doesn't work anymore.
Even worse for DVD.

At least with vinyl or tape you can work around it.
With a CD if it can't read the TOC, you are pretty much dead.

I don't know if what happens to CDs constitutes bit-rot though. At the
end of the day, it's not so much that the data corrupted itself as much
as it is the fact that the media became unreadable. Age will do that to
any medium though, from vinyl to Blu-Ray.

If sound can still be extracted from decade-old vinyls though, that's
awesome. I would assume that there's little more than pops and fizzes on
that old record. Brand new records provide you with the best sound
imaginable though.


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