Re(2): [vorbis-dev] Mime Type and Ogg

Chris Hanson cmh at bDistributed.com
Sat Oct 14 21:39:19 PDT 2000



My understanding is that Ogg is a multimedia container format, not an 
audio *or* a video file format.  As such, it is incorrect to try to 
assign Ogg files a MIME supertype of either audio or video.

An Ogg file may contain audio, video, or neither.  At some point in 
the future an Ogg file could be used to contain static images.  Or 
scripts for sprites.  Or settings for effects to be applied to other 
Ogg files.  Or...


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