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

Markus Meyer meyer at mesw.de
Mon May 9 05:16:48 PDT 2005


Alen Ladavac schrieb:

>Good news (for Walter, Alexander et al.) is that it is _you_ as the users
>who decide how you are going to name your files. If using .ogg for both
>video and audio doesn't suit you, well just use .oga and .ogv or .ogg and
>.ogv. Or whatever you like. Hell, you can frelly use .ogg and .ogm, even
>though technically .ogm is something else. Any Windows video player I tried
>recently was pretty happy to play files with any extension, as long as there
>are DS filters installed for it. It is only the matter of associating the
>extension for the sake of filemanager.
>  
>
The three-letter-extension namespace is already crowded as it is, so it 
would really help to have some kind of semi-standard to avoid allocating 
five or six different file extensions with possibly inconsistent 
interpretation.

Markus



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