Re: [gentoo-user] VQF deprecated?

Re: [gentoo-user] VQF deprecated?

[Uwe Thiem]

On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote:

Multiple parse errors. :-(

Didn't get at all what you were trying to say.

Please don't get me wrong. I know your mother tongue isn't English, 
neither is mine. You have got one thing to keep in mind: If your 
command of the language you are writing in isn't top notch you better 
adhere to a couple of rules:

- Phrase things as simply as possible. Avoid complicated sentences.

- Don't be sarcastic. Sarcasm gets lost and so does the *content* of 
your post.

- Don't try to be funny. It doesn't come across if you don't know how 
to be funny in a foreign language.

- Be as straight forward as possible. Even if you sound rude (people 
will give you credit for expressing yourself in a language you 
haven't grown up with), that's far better than sounding gibberish.

Native speakers on this lists can try to be funny/ironic/sarcastic. 
People like you and I better use simple English.

I am *not* saying you can't express yourself. You most probably can in 
Polish. 

Couldn't resist to rant a wee bit here. So for balacing it off: Peace, 
love, sunshine, good beer and single malt!

Uwe

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[gentoo-user] VQF deprecated?

["Mateusz A. Mierzwiński"]

Hi,

I just wan't to know, why software such as amarok don't go way, like 
winamp - more formats available for playing because of plugins? SO 
libraries are also dynamic linked, so why I don't have any player for 
VQF format? I must emulate Winamp with wine to play VQF of course with 
better sound quality with DSP plugins like  3D Spatial Sound. My god! 
This is Linux - best operating system on the world, why software 
producers are so closed to world? Wining with Windows is endless future. 
XMMS was playing VQF but XMMS was removed from portage because some bugs 
(what software don't have one). I know that OGG is better, or even MP3 
(MPEG-1 Layer 3) but VQF in 80kbps is still lossless compresion - MP3 
and OGG not, and I like to listen good quality music with all tones, 
even not heared. PS: human ear toleration is little part different for 
different people - MP3 and OGG is not good compression for audiophiles.

Mateusz M.
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Re: [gentoo-user] VQF deprecated?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wan't to know, why software such as amarok don't go way, like
> winamp - more formats available for playing because of plugins? 

Dunno. You should ask the amarok developers why they chose the 
architecture they did. Or you could try gstreamer?

> SO 
> libraries are also dynamic linked, so why I don't have any player for
> VQF format? 

Maybe no-one has written one. It won't be written until someone care 
enough to write it.

> I must emulate Winamp with wine to play VQF of course 
> with better sound quality with DSP plugins like  3D Spatial Sound. My
> god! This is Linux - best operating system on the world, why software
> producers are so closed to world? Wining with Windows is endless
> future. XMMS was playing VQF but XMMS was removed from portage
> because some bugs (what software don't have one). 

XMMS was removed from portage because it was a huge monolithic piece of 
crap. Upstream ABANDONED the project years before, no-one had touched 
the ebuild for ages and no-one was prepared to maintain it. And, just 
to top everything off, it wouldn't build.

> I know that OGG is 
> better, or even MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3) but VQF in 80kbps is still
> lossless compresion - MP3 and OGG not, and I like to listen good
> quality music with all tones, even not heared. PS: human ear
> toleration is little part different for different people - MP3 and
> OGG is not good compression for audiophiles.

Mateusz, this is the wrong place to vent your frustrations and have a 
rant. The people here will help you take something that exists and get 
it running. They are not the devs, and no-one here has influence with 
the devs.

I suggest you code the necessary plugins yourself. That's how this best 
operating system in the world got to be the best - someone like you 
needed it to do something and wrote the code to do it.



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