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

[Stan Seibert]

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 12:40, Paul E wrote:
> Shouldn't the extension represent what the file is?  As in audio or 
> video?  What if OpenOffice changed it used the same extension for 
> spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations, and drawings.  
> You would go crazy looking for a spreadsheet because you wouldn't know 
> which were which necessarily.  I don't know about everyone else, but I 
> use different programs for audio than video.  I use Winamp or XMMS for 
> audio, and I use ZoomPlayer (Win) or Mplayer for video.  They are very 
> different to me.  I listen to music while I do something else, but I 
> don't necessarily watch movies while I'm working.

Actually, it looks like you agree with me.  I wasn't claiming that
naming everything .ogg was necessarily a good idea, because that makes
it hard for the shell to figure out what application to open the file
with.  I'm saying that it makes sense to use extensions to decide what
application to open the file with, because that's what many shells do
these days and that's really what you are interested in.

So, under that scheme, a file you want to view with a video player
should have a different extension than an audio file, which is what you
are saying.

The interesting question is whether it would make sense (backward
compatibility issues aside for the moment) to take this to the extreme
and name all music files on your system .music and associate that with
your music player, and all of your movies .video, or something like
that.  (Assuming you want them to all use the same program)


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Stan Seibert

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