Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400
> Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon
>> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>> > [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when
>> > you are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without
>> > consulting the other experts out there (who will always outnumber
>> > you)
>>
>> Which better container formats were available at the time AVI was
>> released (1992)? The only contemporary container format I'm aware of
>> is RIFF, which came out in 1988. MPEG-1 didn't come out until 1993,
>> which was the same year the Ogg project started. Real's stuff didn't
>> come out until 1995. Matroska was announced a decade later, in 2005.
>>
>> Matroska, MP4 and even OGG are nicer container formats, sure, but they
>> weren't around yet. And even with any of them, it's perfectly possible
>> to accidentally get A/V desync or stuttering if you don't mux your
>> streams properly.
>>
>> (This post draws heavily on Wikipedia for date information, and dates
>> may be considered only as accurate as Wikipedia...)
>>
>
> You missed the essence of my post entirely.

Anti-Microsoft snark? I thought I was calling you on it.

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