On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
Well, "the Unix way" is you have programs that send everything to standard output, then redirect as needed by other apps.
Of course that doesn't prevent other, "big" players like VLC implementing their own codecs, internally, if devs feels the need or competent enought to maintain them...
FC
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