[vorbis] Why the commotion about file extensions?

[programmer_ted]

> > For audio, it's important to me to distinguish between Vorbis, Flac, and
> > Speex in the extension.  I imagine that when there are a bunch of
choices
> > of video codecs, you'd also want this distinction.  I don't think just
> > calling everything .ogg is a good solution.  And TLEs just seem way too
> > restrictive.
>
> I agree with you on all counts.  And I think the standard extension will
end
> up being "whatever oggenc/speexenc/flac/etc" outputs.
>
> So if I go:
> $ flac foo.wav
> ...and it produces "foo.flac", then that's going to be what 95% of
end-users
> will use as the extension.

Good point.  I think 3-4  letters is ok, but more than that is pushing it
(this wasn't commenting on your point; I was just correcting my previous
post because I said the extensions should be limited to three letters).

> "This quote is umop apisdn."

Huh?

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