"Hadron" <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
fnbrbs$ifh$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 1/24/08 10:16 PM:
> JEDIDIAH <jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 2008-01-22, Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:46:09 +0000, [H]omer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> XMMS comes with MP3 support too (unless that has changed). And you
>>>>> know how 'difficult' it is to get XMMS in Ubuntu... takes a few
>>>>> seconds of mousing (or clicking if you can type in 'sudo apt-get
>>>>> install xmms').
>>>>
>>>> Pretty much anything that uses libavcodec/libavformat supports MP3,
>>>> along with around 345 other formats (see "mplayer -av help" and "mplayer
>>>> -ac help" for the list). This includes MPlayer, VLC, ffmpeg (ffplay),
>>>> and presumably many others. Beat that, Windows Media Player. LOL!
>>>
>>> Tell me again how Linux is ready for the masses.
>>
>> Windows finds a file it doesn't know how to handle? Tough luck.
>>
>> Ubuntu finds a file it doesn't know how to handle? It installs the app.
>
> If it doesn't know how to handle it, how does it "know" which app to
> install?
>
> Oh dear me.
It looks at the file extension and gets help from resources on the 'net.
Well, that is what I thought it would do. Just tried with a couple and it
did not do so... gave me its version of the hour glass for some time and
then did nothing - not even a dialog telling me it did not know what to do.
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If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law.
Roy Santoro, Psycho Proverb Zone (http://snipurl.com/BurdenOfProof)
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