From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1STfxE-0000hM-71 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 May 2012 21:03:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA12FE0771; Sun, 13 May 2012 21:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9383E0764 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 21:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so3793014bkc.40 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 14:01:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=3qa97PFp1IfqUR75BkCUkkJRjY6I2aSGSq74/pvEkD8=; b=k7e3TqRZw4XIhsUbRXycOrDtFZPVFEWmBZzzK9MHXqwSQ7cLQRI1hDTAgRAwfPCQMa y24WJZFkDWaUhONRKZ/6LW5jPH9tRNLmxVCGebS0ZsTIbeQmK5y8nDPyR/4pvs5va0fp BDQ7izgy48R6eKSR+h8UhFarABHXQB+tm2npvpVAl+QVNEMIzu+uYrFZeAxtThq+Khqx APZ+9t7XchI2zNsLa6+VvvybaYYuO5hnUueKXgHbAZW62wk35ze2Kxv0CoSWlXazVp00 Cqn+WffmYUC1EcmmNhBxkTd3ZFrgRILfg9YH0PYtJIZwls+2z+EHVGKNp96LBdTzmzwm MVBg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.153.6 with SMTP id i6mr2075824bkw.114.1336942867843; Sun, 13 May 2012 14:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.183.203 with HTTP; Sun, 13 May 2012 14:01:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120513225318.5ce27b9c@khamul.example.com> References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218180407.74055f5e@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218220521.1278e023@bluewin.ch> <1705219.vsiCQe2Sr8@weird> <20120507144134.4ea24fc3@weird.wonkology.org> <20120507231123.49125d30@weird.wonkology.org> <20120509214419.34d6bbe4@weird.wonkology.org> <20120512034046.35aae496@weird.wonkology.org> <20120512170512.4a90eab7@weird.wonkology.org> <20120513105606.4745860a@khamul.example.com> <20120513225318.5ce27b9c@khamul.example.com> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of] From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 152463e9-4ee3-4981-8bab-21dc2a4a2519 X-Archives-Hash: 4e7e24ef120ad254040a02348e515503 On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 > Michael Mol wrote: > >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon >> 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. -- :wq