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

[Tom Felker]

On Sunday 13 July 2003 7:00 am, J.W. Harris wrote:
> someone snipped the attribution :
> > >Is it possible for Windows to form an association based on two
> > >extensions, a la .tar.bz2?  If so, we could have something like .ogg or
> > >.vorbis.ogg for Vorbis, .flac.ogg for OggFLAC, and similar for whatever
> > >else.
>
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Paul E wrote:
> > Windows (atleast my Win2k pro) can handle .vorbis.ogg.  I'd bet that XP
> > can too then.  I don't know about 9x though.  I still think the most
> > simple approach is best.  The KISS (keep it simple stupid) rule.
>
> Really?  That hasn't been my experience at all.  I developed
> a website on my linux box but was forced to do some
> last-minute changes on a MS Win2k box.  The piece of crap
> choked on filenames with more than one dot.  The command
> line in MS Win2k is distinctly less capable than the one
> shipped with previous versions of MS Win NT.
>
> Or can the GUI File Explorer in MS Win2k handle multiple
> dots in filenames fine whereas only the command line chokes?
>
> Just remember that if you have more than one dot in a
> filename, you WILL have problems at the MS Win2k command
> line.

I just did some tests, and Windows XP can't handle it.  If I make an 
association for .vorbis.ogg, it makes the association for .ogg too.  So it 
doesn't do the right thing and use the associations with the most dots.  
Windows 98 just strips dots out of the field where you type the association, 
so .vorbis.ogg becomes *.vorbisogg.

IMO, the best thing is .vogg or .v_ogg and .fogg or .f_ogg.  Windows can make 
that association, it thankfully isn't limited to three letters.

> --refusing to use MS Windows anymore,
> (not completely true, I watch DVDs on my father-in-law's PC)

Ogle, Knoppix.

> --J.W. Harris


-- 
Tom Felker

65 != 97, 0x41 != 0x61, 0101 != 0141,
similarly, 'A' != 'a'

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