[ogg-dev] Re: [theora-dev] Re: [Advocacy] Re: [Vorbis-dev] Proposal: An extension to rules all others

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Have you tried mobile and embedded platforms?

Cheers,
Silvia.

On 5/4/07, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know what's the situation right now, but I have run a few
> tests and I changed my opinion (again) on using .3 extensions.
>
> I've tried old file systems like FAT16, FAT32, Joliet, Rock Ridge,
> ext2 and ISO9660 and created a "longfilename.oggaudio" file.  Then I
> checked how it looked in both Windows XP and an Ubuntu system.  Every
> file system coped well with the file, and both OS's even let me open
> it in an audio player with no noticeable problems.
>
> The only issue I found was with older versions of ISO9660,
> specifically version 1, which only allows 8.3 UPPERCASE files.
> Presently, I know of no use to ISO9660 version 1.
>
> My vote goes back to:
> .oggaudio
> .oggvideo
> and .ogg for 1) everything else and 2) backwards compatibility
>
> By backwards compatibility I mean old players that can only read
> Vorbis as .ogg (or Speex as .spx) _and_ backwards compatibility with
> arcane file systems, i.e. MS-DOS and ISO9660 version 1.
>
> I'll remind everyone that on the Monthly Meeting of October 2006,
> everyone there reached a consensus that we should avoid at all costs
> the use of extensions of three letters.
>
> -Ivo
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