On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:14:52PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > * William Pitcock [Sun, Jul 15 2007, 12:06:47AM]: > > Eduard Bloch <edi <at> gmx.de> writes: > > > I see this in strace output with default configuration. Switching the > > > setting between on-display and on-load makes it even worse, then it > > > opens every file THREE times. Sorry, wtf? > > This is a result of codec detection, and has been improved upon in > > Audacious 1.3 (presently available in unstable?). XMMS does not perform > > codec detection, but instead guesses on how to proceed. That behaviour > > is broken in more than a few ways. > I disagree. As said, I dislike a simple player touching every file for no > good reason, and I do not consider "codec detection" a such one. There > is simply no important information you would gather from that. Validity > of the file and the length are only interesting at play time. > > I fail to see what is so "broken" about the XMMS way. It may be > inconvinient for you when doing (re)design since you have to deal with > uncerntainity. But, well, are you going to create a comfortable player or > yet another piece of stupid multimedia software?
I think this part of the discussion is not really on-topic for debian-devel anymore... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
