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Originally posted by bug77 View Post
Because basically nobody cares about FLAC? Nobody sells uncompressed music and kids these days use all sorts of crappy headphones/speakers that even a 128kbit MP3 is wasted on them.
I've ripped my CDs to FLAC, but mostly because I've wanted to have a bit-perfect backup.
Personally I'll take FLAC support first over WebP support. Connectivity is so fast and so cheap most places now, saving a few kilobytes in image compression in loading a web page doesn't make a measurable difference. Seems like WebP might be of interest to the extremely high volume web sites, the biggest of the big, but I don't really see what tangible benefit it brings to consumers. Obviously if major sites start using WebP, we'll need the support in FF to browse them, but until then, it doesn't seem like a priority to me anyways.
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Originally posted by Gusar View PostOpus support is already there. Has been for a long time now.
Probably got the WebP discussion mixed up!
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View Post
FLAC is widely used amongst hi-fi enthusiasts. And there are multiple on-line music stores that sell their albums in FLAC format. I've bought a bunch of albums encoded in FLAC from hdtracks.com
Also, how many people could actually tell the difference between 320kbp/s mp3 and loseless?
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Originally posted by Creak View PostI don't understand Mozilla... it makes 6 years that all the developers are asking them to add WebP support, which is way better than any JPEG optimizations they're bringing up (WebP can compress alpha, JPEG can't, that's just it: JPEG can't compete that), it is open source and supported by Chrome since a few years now (so around 45% of the market shares), and it's still not in Firefox.
Yet, they managed to find time to add support for FLAC, an audio format that is great, but not extremely popular and, most of all, not supported by any other browser!
I would be glad to read this news if Mozilla was already on par with the other browsers, but it isn't so it's a bit sad to read that, it's like they don't know where to go.
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I'm surprised that the browsers explicitly need to enable support for formats. Isn't the goal of frameworks like GStreamer/Phonon to handle the file formats? For instance my system supports FLAC fully in all possible ways. The MIME database entry is there, the frameworks support it, the multimedia/music players support it. Firefox doesn't?
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