[MPlayer-users] can't play certain matroska files using vdpau

[Dominique Michel]

Le Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:05:54 +0100,
Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski <rambo at id.uw.edu.pl> a écrit :

> > When mp3 was created there was no consumer device that could play it
> > back - so why invent mp3?

To give an opportunity to mplayer and alsaplayer to play them back -:)

> 
> Because it was to be a standard for digital communication and radio
> broadcast. Not an immensly successful format of loose audio
> compression.

More seriously, it was for the money. Hopefully, some radios stations
don't want to pay for something that is not needed:
http://www.openradio.co.uk/

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