[vorbis] File Extension .OGG

[McMeikan, Andrew]

I would have to agree with this.

My preference would be .og3 as that would help in consumer recognition and
make for better uptake.  I suppose a more technically valid one would be
'oga' for audio and 'ogv' for audio-video but I feel that .og3 would do
better.

        cya,	Andrew...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Erik Moeller [SMTP:moeller at scireview.de]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:40 AM
> To:	vorbis at xiph.org
> Subject:	[vorbis] File Extension .OGG
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've already sent this to feedback at vorbis.com, but I got no response 
> and this might be more correctly placed here anyway, so here is a 
> revised vesrion.
> 
> I have one thing to criticize, which is the file extension *.OGG. 
> It's ambigous (the Netrek meaning) and using it for both video and 
> audio seems confusing. Plus, there are a lot of OGG files floating 
> around that are generated by the current beta versions of the 
> encoder. These could be confused with the files generated by the 
> final version. Changing the extension in the final release would 
> easily fix this problem. (Of course you can have version information 
> within the file, but usually this information cannot be accessed 
> before a download.)
> 
> Searching for OGG on AltaVista produces Hawaii photo pages, family  
> names, private homepages, university names .. but no music. I think a 
> good extension should be more unique. Granted, should OGG become so 
> popular that everything else with OGG in it is in the minority this 
> is no longer a big problem. Granted, also, with search for file 
> extensions specifically, you won't have many OGG results. Still, I 
> feel that while in early development, it would be useful to make a 
> change to the name of the extension.  
> 
> Without much further ado, here are some suggestions for alternative 
> extensions:
> 
> Without numbers:
> 	VOX - for Vorbis (V) Oggs (OX) & Latin Vox = Voice
>     MOX - for movies
> These are hardly unique in the search engine respect, but sound good 
> and are different for movies and audio. According to www.wotsit.org, 
> they are not taken.
> 
> With numbers:
> 	V0X - note that is a zero between the V and the X
>           this would be increased with each new version of the 
>           specs - 1513 hits on AltaVista
>     M0X - same here - 173 hits
>     - -  -
> 	XS1 - for sound
>     XV1 - for video
>     - - - 
> 	OV1 - for Ogg Vorbis, Type 1 .. type 2 for video etc.
> 
> That's all I can think of right now, but maybe you can brainstorm for 
> more.
> 
> Best regards,
> Erik Moeller
> -- 
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