On 03/12/2014 10:49 AM, JEDIDIAH wrote:
On 2014-12-02, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
Slimer wrote:

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.

That's disputable. Thumbdrives are cheap and plentiful. Meanwhile, CDs
are a single use medium. The smallest available thumb drives are cheap enough
to treat as disposable and can be used over and over again.

Thumbdrives allow you to store a crapload of MP3 and M4A files, but CDs
contain AIFF files which have an excellent, uncompressed quality. We're
comparing apples to oranges here.

If you've got a fetish for optical media, even DVD makes more sense as it
has more capacity. That's the last optical media I bothered with (about 10 years
ago) before I switched completely to thumbdrives and the like.

Once again, apples to oranges.

Although anyone snooty enough to turn his nose up at any of the CD alternatives
that have arisen in the last 20 years isn't going to be dickering around with a PC.

MP3 and M4A files are not a CD alternative, they are a compressed and
lossy version of the album you would get on a CD in excellent quality.
To a lot of people, the convenience of having lossy files IMMEDIATELY
versus going out and buying a CD makes a sense obsolete. However, many
of us truly enjoy the music we're paying for and therefore want to get
it in the best quality possible with the option of later transferring it
to a lossy codec for convenience.

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