[vorbis-dev] Multi-stream vorbis...

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, illiminable wrote:

> What you lose by having a single extension is....
> a) The ability to determine a file type at a glance... i've already started
> double extensioning all my test files, because it annoyed me i had to keep
> looking at the headers in a hex editor to see what type of file i was
> testing. People like to know in advance if they are about to open a video or
> an audio file.

Hex editor?

What kinda piece of crap platform are you on that doesn't use file magic
to determine type or at least provide the 'file' command?

Is windows this bad?

> b) In a networked situation, people may be willing to stream audio, but not
> have the bandwidth for video... the url alone won't let them make that
> decision without just trying and see what happens

Will they be able to stream my multimegabit/sec 96KHz 26channel
third-order ambisonic vorbis file?

No.

Filex extensions don't solve that problem.

> c) You lose the ability to have seperate players be the default player for
> different types of files... for example i have iTunes attached to all audio
> files, and WMP attahed to all video files.

So if you want to use differnt media players for differnt content use a
wrapper that gets launched and figures it out, or lobby your OS maker to
make the launcher smart enough to look deeper.

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