William Morder via tde-users wrote:

> Eventually, though, even if you stay off the Internet, the media players
> your unsupported Stretch and/or Wheezy systems will stop playing some
> formats, because they keep changing things. And like I said,
> Buster/Beowulf will be supported for years to come. So -- when things in
> your life get more bearable -- consider upgrading your system.

I must disagree - no one is changing the standards. At least I am not aware
of things changing in already released formats. What may not work are new
formats where you may not have the new codec.