From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) From: Anant Narayanan In-Reply-To: <4AB27412.9080809@0x6a.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:23:12 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <0975AF13-7816-4F91-BC47-A237B047AD0A@kix.in> References: <3e1162e60909170856x1969d92g97afebf251320f6e@mail.gmail.com> <4AB27412.9080809@0x6a.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7155077c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Not meaning to add fuel to the fire, but; On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Jack Norton wrote: > I hate iTunes with a passion. It is a huge monolithic godlike > creature that tries to do everything for me (usually when I don't > want it to). It brings my 12" powerbook to a screeching halt (I get > beach balled to death), and it doesn't natively support many audio/ > video codecs/containers (and isn't that easily extended, which > brings up quicktime.... ). Somebody wrapped ffmpeg in Quicktime, which lets it play almost any imaginable media format: http://perian.org/ Quicktime X isn't too bad compared to the old QT, atleast they're making progress. You can't say the same of iTunes though, I think it's been going downhill since version 7. However, I do hope that when they decide to rewrite it in 64-bit Cocoa ("iTunes X"), they'll make it half as insane as compared to now. It's bound to happen. > Just about the simplest way to play audio on a computer, save for > the methods in plan9 :) (I'm _trying_ to get us back on topic...) Good luck trying to get Plan 9 to play video! -- Anant