Vorbis - Mar 2007 - [Nico Sabbi] Re: [MPlayer-users] converting .rm video stream to .ogg

I saw this on the Mplayer list. Why is this guy saying this?

Charles

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On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 06:25:53AM -0400, Charles philip Chan wrote:
> I saw this on the Mplayer list. Why is this guy saying this?
> [...]
>> ogg is by far the most insane mux format ever conceived,
>> thus no conscious coder wants to permit to give birth to an abomination
>> like that
The mplayer developers seem to have an irrational obhorrence of Ogg. I 
don't really understand it.

Ogg definitely has some warts, but that is true of all media containers. 

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