[mythtv] .shn file playback

[Charles Lavin]

Isn't that ironic.  Free music being spread in a proprietary codec.

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 00:05, Isaac Richards wrote:
> 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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