[Theora] Other extension for Ogg Theora then "ogg"

[illiminable]

This is one of those contentious issues.

In fact a .flac file, should only have flac framing in it... no ogg at 
all... there's actually 3 different types of flac files... "native flac", 
which has nothing to do with ogg, "ogg flac classic", the original 
encapsulation of flac into ogg, and "Oggflac 1.0" which is a new 
encapsulation of flac in ogg.

Being in the windows world, i made my directshow filters also accept .oga 
and .ogv (ie to specify audio or video), since many things in windows are 
based on file extensions... one notable thing that's relevant is WMP's media 
library, to classify a file as going in the audio or video section requires 
a file extension to decide.

But note... these are not accepted extensions for these files... nor is this 
recommended by xiph.

If you look back in the mailing list and meeting minutes, i'm sure you'll 
find many long discussions of such things. on one side the file extension 
people, on the other the "file magic" people.

Zen.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Vermeir" <walter.temp2005 at sol3.info>
To: <theora at xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 4:50 PM
Subject: [Theora] Other extension for Ogg Theora then "ogg"


> Hi,
>
> The standards for audio and video to be used by the Wikimedia projects
> (like Wikipedia) are Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora.
>
> The use of Ogg Vorbis files is growing fast. For now the use of video is
> still very limited.
>
> The problem is that an audio and an video file looks the same because of
> the same file extension. This is very annoying because you do not know
> what for file it is when you look at it. When you have files on your
> computer or cd-roms you know your stuff and know what is what. But in a
> community like the the Wikimedia projects that uses a wiki many users
> are working whit the files and the fact that a audio file looks the same
> as a video file it is confusing.
>
> Is there a recommended other extension that can be used instead of
> "ogg"? Like you can have a flac-file whit the extension "flac" but also
> "ogg"?
>
> FYI here is the current selection of video in Ogg Theora;
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video
>
> Greetings,
> Walter Vermeir
>
> [[w:nl:gebruiker:walter]]
>
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