[vorbis] .ogg file extension for both audio and video?

[Carsten Orthbandt]

A "switcher" app doesn't solve the problem, though.
As a user, I'd like to tell from the file extension
if its audio or video. Using .ogg for both simply
sucks, IMO. Baaad idea.

Scenario: User installs ogg switcher app together
with a vorbis player. There is no ogg video player
around at the time. So although there is an associ-
ated app for .ogg, there are .ogg files it can't
play. Major drag. Most users will blame the ogg
package of being unable to play its own files. And
rightfully the will since this goes against the
whole concept of file extensions, no matter how
smart it was in the first place (I have yet to see
something better, though).

My 2ct...

Carsten Orthbandt
Founder + Development Director
SEK SpieleEntwicklungsKombinat GmbH
http://www.sek-ost.de

Wenn ich Visionen habe, gehe ich zum Arzt. - Helmut Schmidt

<p>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maik Merten [mailto:maikmerten at gmx.net]
> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 10:14 PM
> To: vorbis at xiph.org
> Subject: Re: [vorbis] .ogg file extension for both audio and video?
> 
> 
> Headless wrote:
> > If I understand things correctly them Ogg is the wrapper format that
> > is also going to be used for Xiph's upcoming video compressor.
> 
> yes.
> 
> > Does that mean that the .ogg file extension will also be used for
> > video?
> 
> yes.
> 
> > This could present problems regarding mapping the .ogg file 
> extension
> > to an application if for example I want audio to be handled 
> by Winamp2
> > and video by something else.
> 
> You could bind the .ogg extension to a "switcher-app" which would 
> analyse the given ogg-stream and start a proper application 
> to play it.
> 
> For an experienced developer it would be a fairly easy task 
> to develop 
> such a "switcher-app".
> 
> Maik
> 
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