[Vorbis] Middle ground? (was Re: "HAANCOSTFU?")

[Jernej Simonèiè]

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On Monday, June 21, 2004, 16:03:04, John Morton wrote:

> Sometime down the road, when media players work well with both audio and
> video, it won't matter, as they'll scan the particulars of the whole file
> into their media browser database, keeping the results cached until the next
> time the file changes.

What if I will still want to use separate players for audio and video files
- currently, I have no need for playlists in my video player, and when I
double-click on a video file, I want it to start playing immediately,
cancelling whatever video was playing before. When I click on an audio file,
I want the file to be put to my playlist instead, without interrupting the
song I'm currently listening to. Also, sometimes I want to listen to music,
while looking at video clips without sound - again something I need separate
players for.

Audio player is something that I perceive as running all the time in
background, which I can control with keyboard shortcuts no matter what
program I'm using right now. Video player is something I run when I want to
watch a movie, and which I close after I'm done. I doubt there will ever be
a media player that will handle playing both video and audio files better
than 2 separate programs.

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