[Vorbis] .ogg extension and Theora

[John Morton]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:52, PrussianSnow wrote:
>  >Paul E Wrote
>
>  [snip]
>
>  >Windows 2000 (although it's the same for all of them) doesn't read in
>  >any mime-type to correctly identify a file, it just uses the extension.
>
>  [snip]
>
>  What if, at least for Windows, someone wrote a simple application which
> when associated with .ogg files and an .ogg file was opened simply read
> enough of the ogg stream to identify the type of content and then launched
> an appropriate (and selectable) application?

You'd have to associate media software to handle the particular codec types by
hand, rather than just choose whether to retain current mappings or clobber
them with some app at install time. It would suck. People would whine about
it.

And it's some app someone would have to write and maintain - the code itself
would be straight forward, but the media association gui design, installer,
source code and release management, website and all the other trappings of a
software project would end up being a millstone around someone's neck.

And you'd have to have one for gnome, kde, mozilla...

Or, in a pinch, we could just call the video ones .ogv or .ogm or something.

John