[vorbis] The OGG Extension...(fwd)

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 01:29:58 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:27:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mark Janssen <maniac at markjanssen.homeip.net>
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Subject: RE: [vorbis] The OGG Extension...
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Frank Krieger wrote:
> 
> > I have to agree. Face it or not, desktop is Windows. Windows will need two
> > extensions.
> > 
> > .ogg for audio - It's already here
> > .vgg for video - Or whatever moves you.
> 
> And prey tell, why does QuickTime work so well with one extension?

That's easy... QuickTime is a bunch of proprietary cr*p, and you can only
play it with their players (which naturally support all encoding types
they have) You can't play a quicktime file with winamp or any other
players.... In the Open Source world we wouln't want to limit the user to
one specific player... someone must have the freedom to play audio-only
files in his favority audio player, and video files in another player...

So, to satisfy windows users (and other systems dependant on file
extensions :( ) we will have to use 2 different extensions...

> The launcher is a fairly good idea, if for some reason it can't be done
> the same way QuickTime does it. And the launcher, I hope, would be very
> small---right? It would not be too hard to ship the launcher with whatever
> plays oggs.

It's easy.... but limiting users to using that and only that
player/launcher... think 'free speech' here...

Mark Janssen                                  Unix Consultant
Unix Support Nederland / PSInet Netherlands
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