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

Maik Merten maikmerten at gmx.net
Sat Jun 21 13:14:04 PDT 2003



Headless wrote:
> If I understand things correctly them Ogg is the wrapper format that
> is also going to be used for Xiph's upcoming video compressor.

yes.

> Does that mean that the .ogg file extension will also be used for
> video?

yes.

> This could present problems regarding mapping the .ogg file extension
> to an application if for example I want audio to be handled by Winamp2
> and video by something else.

You could bind the .ogg extension to a "switcher-app" which would 
analyse the given ogg-stream and start a proper application to play it.

For an experienced developer it would be a fairly easy task to develop 
such a "switcher-app".

Maik

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