[Vorbis] .ogg extension and Theora

[Dan Hollis]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jon Doda wrote:
> 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.

Assuming applications can deal with multipart extensions or longer
extensions:

file.theora.ogg, file.theora-ogg, file.t.ogg, file.t-ogg
file.vorbis.ogg, file.vorbis-ogg, file.v.ogg, file.v-ogg

just some ideas.

-Dan