[vorbis] File Extension .OGG

[David Carter]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:53:39PM +0800, Angus Griffin wrote:
> Even though this seems a worryingly pointless discussion, I'll put my two
> bob in.
> 
> I feel that the .ogg extension is sufficient for BOTH formats, as I assume
> players will be 'expected' to decode both audio and video files... and that
> they will be part of the same file format. It would be silly to name them
> any differently. And heck, it's a kinda nifty extension anyway, who could
> ask for more?

I agree wholeheartedly -- even if a particular file contains audio and video
(or maybe even audio in more than one format), it should be reasonable to
assume that the player would play one or more streams that it understands,
and ignore the ones it doesn't.  (A complex example would be a .ogg file
containing video, and a soundtrack in both Vorbis and the forthcoming
lossless Squish format.  A video player would play the video and one of the
sets of audio tracks (it should give you a choice of which type of audio
to play if multiple formats are included), while an audio-only player would
ignore the video portion and play the audio.  (Again, if the audio player
understood Squish and Vorbis, you would select the one you wanted to play.))

The bottom line is that players should play what they understand, and ignore
the rest.  Thus, different extensions would only add confusion and complexity
where it isn't needed.  We should keep the .ogg extension.

        David


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