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  @Gargron Ok, I got your pointā¦ "look, apple still doesn't support standards instead of it own bastardizations, so apple has the right to dictate what so-called 'open source software' should support, and what it shouldn't, so it doesn't offend the apple fanclub" @Gargron Yeah sure, paying over 800ā¬ for a dumbphone and over 1200ā¬ for low-end computers, sound much like "everyday people" And looking for efficiency (avoid useless recompression of compressed media) by supporting well documented standard with 20+ years of existence, is just being about "pleasing some free software nerds"ā¦ Thanks for your usual "I know better than everyone who doesn't agree with me and I don't care about other people's advice" attitudeā¦ @h30x @lienrag @devnull More wisely than ensuring that nobody on Mastodon encounters media their browser won't play? This is a rhetorical question, please do not respond. It would be bad UX if people routinely saw unsupported media files on the platform. I don't care if the conversion makes your specific file slightly bigger. |
@Gargron That may be true for embedded systems like car music players or even entry-level HiFi equipment, that is still 20+ years behind in terms of format supportā¦ But that's hardly true for any non-embedded and up-to-date softwareā¦
OGG is not Opus (which is actually still not-so-widely supported), and has been around since the ā2000sā¦ There's no sane reason to not support it "because it's not supported elsewhere"ā¦
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