[advocacy] Interview with Jack Moffitt

[Daniel James]

>  This is all _encoding side_, so yes, only newly encoded streams
> will reap the benefit of this.

I guess the point of calling something 1.0 is that it fixes the 
format. So, is it safe to say that all files made with a 1.0 encoder 
or greater will play on a 1.0 decoder?

I don't think it matters if not all features are supported for 
backwards compatibility, as long as the future files will actually 
*play* on that 1.0 decoder.  That's not the case at the moment with 
things like word processors, where (once widely used) document 
formats from the mid-90's (eg Word Perfect, Pagemaker) can't even be 
opened on many of today's computers.

Daniel

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