SHN (Re: [mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] torrentocracy = rss + bit torrent + myth)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:32:35PM -0500, Charles Lavin wrote:

> Sure.  While I'm at it, I'll get them all to switch to Linux.  I'm a
> programmer not a codec pusher.

If you're a programmer, then you could implement it rather than dreaming
about "now if we could only...".  It wouldn't be difficult.

But it would be a waste of time.  SHN is obsolescent.

> Tapers are set in their ways and are unlikely to change overnight.  Just
> because something is obviously better doesn't mean people are going to
> jump on the bandwagon.  If etree made the switch to pushing flac instead
> of shn then tapers might start follow suit.  Until that happens we are
> stuck with SHN. Come to think of it, even if every taper in the world
> switched to flac there would still be a need for shorten support in Myth.
> There are thousands of shows already encoded in SHN.  Should they all be
> converted to flac?  Don't see that happening.  

etree is interested in FLAC already.

http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=FLAC

But it doesn't really matter what all the "tapers" do, really.  Converting
between lossless compression formats is trivial, so you're free to move from
a less capable one to a more capable one at any time.  I'm sure that someone
has already written and published the 2-line shell script so that you don't
need to even think.  You aren't "stuck" with anything.

But I don't need to tell you any of this.  You're a programmer, and pretty
soon you'll be sending in a patch for SHN support.

Don't see that happening.

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 - mdz