Video players

[edmund]

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:06:51 +0200
Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de> wrote:

> Am 03.06.2013 17:02, schrieb edmund:
> > On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:45:29 +0200
> > Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> Am 03.06.2013 13:22, schrieb edmund:
> >>> On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:09:38 +0200
> >>> ttoine <ttoine at 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.
> > 
> > Disclaimer : I come from BeOS ( Be Operating System ) and that was
> > good as can be. Each and every program installed that added any
> > codec was immediately available for every other program.
> > Until VLC fucked it up, it could play one or two other additional
> > codecs but this was not in any way usable for any other program.
> > So I guess that VLC policy is no different under Linux Windows or
> > any other OS.
> 
> Guess, OK. Well in Linux any programm that likes to do so can use VLC
> and its libs for whatever purpose they like, some video-apps do so
> and I never heared anyone complain about the reusability of
> VLC-libs/functions.

Read on about the ghost sound it produces when you try to play High Res
audio!
IAW when you think to play high quality you get lots of distortion!

Edmund