[mythtv] .shn file playback

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Jun 21 01:05:44 EDT 2004


On Monday 21 June 2004 12:32 am, Charles Lavin wrote:
> Sure.  While I'm at it, I'll get them all to switch to Linux.  I'm a
> programmer not a codec pusher.  Tapers are set in their ways and are
> unlikely to change overnight.  Just because something is obviously
> better doesn't mean people are going to jump on the bandwagon.  If etree
> made the switch to pushing flac instead of shn then tapers might start
> follow suit.  Until that happens we are stuck with SHN. Come to think of
> it, even if every taper in the world switched to flac there would still
> be a need for shorten support in Myth.  There are thousands of shows
> already encoded in SHN.  Should they all be converted to flac?  Don't
> see that happening.

Shorten is not free, and as such will and can never be included in mythmusic.

Isaac


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