[vorbis-dev] MIME types registration

[rillian]

On Wednesday, May 16, 2001, at 07:08 , Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> If a file is "normal" audio, it should be classified audio/something;
> if it contains "normal" video (with or without audio), it should be 
> video/something;
> anything else should be application/ogg.

Yep, that part's right.

> I'm not saying apps shouldn't deal with it; apps should deal with 
> anything
> legal.  I'm only saying that i'd rather not have movie files or whatever
> classified as audio/vorbis, and certainly not just because a file just
> happens to have a vorbis stream as its first substream.

What you seem to be missing is the proposal to tie audio/something or 
video/something to whichever substream is first so we can do magic 
detection. That's how we keep movie files from being classified at 
audio/vorbis.

Otherwise, yeah, I totally agree. :-)

  -ralph

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