[vorbis] File Extension .OGG

[Angus Griffin]

Certainly Vorbis wants to be as widely accepted as possible, and certainly,
the extension is important in that. Perhaps then - as it has been in the
case of mp3 - the formats extension is its biggest marketing point.

We may eventually be able to buy (not if RIAA and co have their way, i'm
sure) Vorbis Cards with albums on them in our local record store and in that
case, it doesn't really matter what the extension is. However, advertising
the formats name as you would using a unified .ogg extension, could prove
more useful than making audio/video discernable from one another by
extension.

Also, it may not be a great idea to simply work around current software
problems, like Winamp opening ogg video files if their extension were .ogg.
Having two separate extensions may be a quicker/easier/dirtier way of
sorting out problems like this, but in the long term, it is almost certainly
not the best. Winamp/Sonique may even be modified in the future to accept
work well with video (I am sure it wouldn't be too difficult), and after
all, isn't one player better than two?

As far as I understand aswell, Ogg refers to the entire project, which the
faq on www.vorbis.com states to be "to create a fully open multimedia
system". The FAQ (perhaps one of the original developers can comment?)
suggests that the extension is fairly deliberate.

Angus Griffin
angus at theBASS.net

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