[vorbis] Why the commotion about file extensions?

Jared Anderson jared at ieee.org
Mon Jul 14 20:35:11 PDT 2003



* Tom Felker <tcfelker at mtco.com> [2003-07-15 13:29]:
> On Monday 14 July 2003 9:41 pm, Sergey Meniailenko wrote:
> > Do we have to mention ogg at all? Could we just go with:
> >
> > .vorbis
> > .theora
> > .speex
> 
> Actually, I kinda like that.  The only problem is what do we call OggFlac?  
> I'm not sure if it matters, though.  Is it important to be able to tell what 
> kind of flac file it is by it's extension?

  Only problem with all this is that by default, .ogg is vorbis.  I
  mean, all my .ogg files are vorbis, and there are a lot of .ogg files
  out in the open that are mostly vorbis.  It's a bit late to change
  that now.

  I like the .ogv .ogm ideas the best for my 2 sheckles.

<p>  Cheers,
    J
  
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