[Vorbis] .ogg extension and Theora

[Greg Wooledge]

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Jon Shiring (slothy at slothy.com) wrote:

> Sorting a directory of files based on their file type is pretty freaking
> essential.

Bingo!

> I think you can point to the fact that .ogm has already been successful
> for videos as proof that Windows people want this.  You might not - hey,
> maybe the linux filesharing apps can automatically remap the filename so
> you don't have to stoop so low.

I'm about as hardcore a Unix-head as you're likely to find.  I don't
think Windows.  I don't use Windows, whenever I can help it.  I don't
think GUI.  Right now I'm looking at a workspace with 9 rxvt (terminal
emulator) windows open in it.  I don't think "object oriented".  OO is
the worst disease the computer industry has ever experienced.

I think command line.  I think syntax.  I think procedures.  I think
verbs, not nouns.  I think about what I want to _do_, not what I want
someone else to _see_.  I think active, not passive.

And I can't understand how anyone -- _anyone_, user or developer, GUI
or CLI, Windows or Mac or Amiga or Unix -- can use the same extension
for both audio and video files.  That's lunacy.

So, just so you know: it's not just for the Windows users.

--
Greg Wooledge                  |   "Truth belongs to everybody."
greg at wooledge.org              |    - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
http://wooledge.org/~greg/     |
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