[vorbis] File Extension .OGG

[Jeff]

        This may be so, but it will still be hard to figure out which file
is audio and which video from an FTP site or a web address.

        Also, Winamp already has support for a ton of video formats
through the NiceMC plugin.  That problem is that Winamp is still an
_audio_ player.  I want to be able to minimize it and listen to my music
as I code :-P  If a video window popped up because I downloaded a video
instead of a soundfile my accident, I'd be pretty annoyed :-P

        I am wondering if the .mog for audio and .vog for video extensions
aren't such a bad idea, though.  I don't know where .mog came from, but
there it is :-P  Perhaps .ogg should be used for audio AND video?  I
dunno.  With bandwidth increasing, etc, I think the next big thign will be
Napster for video :-P  
        I guess the only question in MY mind is .ogg for audio, or .ogg
for video and something else (equally catchy..?  Probably not) for
audio?  :-P

        --Floss

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Angus Griffin wrote:

> 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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