[Vorbis] .ogg extension and Theora

Jon Doda jdoda
Thu Jun 17 09:28:58 PDT 2004


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noprivacy at earthlink.net wrote:
> .oga for audio only and .ogv for audio and video?  Close enough to
'.ogg' to
> be recognised.
>
> But still, it might be nice to have some extension that is somewhat
> descriptive of Theora video.  .OGT perhaps?

Using an extension named after a specific codec seems like a bad idea
for a generic container format.  There's no reason to believe that
Theora will be the only video codec to use an ogg container, just as
Vorbis is not the only audio codec that uses ogg.

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Jon Doda


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