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

[Tom Felker]

On Monday 14 July 2003 5:00 am, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> steve wrote on 2003-07-14:
> > > I really do like the idea of .ogf .ogt etc.  It is somewhat similar to
> > > the mpeg style naming such as mp3, mp2, m1v,  mpg.  Is there a reason
> > > that Theora couldn't exist in an OGM though?  Or are there technical
> > > reasons as to why it is not well suited to .ogm files?  Correct me if
> > > I'm wrong (it happens a lot more than I'd like to admit) but isn't
> > > Theora just a codec and not a container format?
> >
> > I thought DivX was not opensource and stuff,
> > ... so would It would make sense to keep the
> > "Vorbis, Speex, Theora,Flac" to their own ending,
> > in order not to dillute the identity of these 4 gems.
> > and use .ogm as the container thing.
> >
> > ...and what about - ".Ogg .Sog" ".Tog" ".Fog"?
>
> These vs. `.ogs`, `.ogt` etc. is purely a matter of tastem not
> functionality or coinvenince.  I think `.ogs` is better than `.sog`
> because it's closer to the right name which is "Ogg Speex", not "Speex
> Ogg"...

I think for clarity, we shouldn't limit it to three characters.  Windows XP 
and 98 can handle this fine, I'm guessing 95, NT, 2000, etc. can also.  For 
example, .ogg_s, .ogg_v, .ogg_t.  It's still short, and the underscore 
ensures that people say it right.  I think I agree that the postfix form is 
more natural than the prefix form (.v_ogg), but the prefix form might 
transfer to 8.3 systems better, because it'd be truncated to .v_o, which is 
still useful.  But the only 8.3 system that actually has associations is 
Windows 3.*, so I don't know if that's worth it.


-- 
Tom Felker

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