i don't think i said you encouraged anything. if i did, i take it back. your point is well taken, however i think this is a vicious cycle. container formats encourage the development of yet more codecs of all flavors. lots of codecs encourage the development of containers. so which one is "worse" becomes less important.
kind of a bummer. - erik On Sat Sep 16 03:48:32 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i disagree with skip. i don't see the advantage to container formats. > > they mostly encourage yet-another-(audio|video)-codex with some > > neeto property that is inevitably less useful than standardization. > > how did i encourage that? > it's reasonable for 'file' to return something one can map to a > handler, that can further crack it open. containers may be ugly > but they're not the real problem - most if not all are described > somewhere. the main issues is proprietary codecs. > > proprietary formats are marketing devices to protect turfs. >
