[Vorbis] Extension proposal - partly serious

[Arc Riley]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:59:24AM -0500, noprivacy at earthlink.net wrote:
> Alright folks, here's the solution.
>
> 1)  Keep extensions to 3 letters for audio & video.  Except for special
> situations where the user might be doing a codec specific name.  Since the
> official extensions are 3 letters, those can always be used on any 8.3
> device.

Here's another solution:

Leave it alone, with .ogg representing anything in an Ogg container, and
instead of conforming to some ancient industry standards or some insane
concept that files should be sorted by CONTENT instead of TYPE.

It's called mime-type for a reason.  Ogg is a type of file.  It contains
data, whatever that data may be.  Creating different extensions and
mime-types depending on the content is similar, as I've said before, to
creating different text file extensions depending on the content of the
text file;

"Hmm, I want my personal text files to immediatly appear different from
work-related text files, documents about my child's school should be a
different extension, and so on.  And to make sure that people I send
these files to understand what they are, this needs to be a standard."

OggFile is where we are headed, and any application with OggFile support
will be able to play any form of media.  It thus doesn't care if it's
audio, video, or something completely different.

If you need to have your audio-only files seperated from video files
keep them in seperate directories and/or put something in their name
which clearly makes them different.  The latter also takes care of the
P2P problem which, btw, is not Xiph's problem as illegal P2P is neither
part of our plan nor even interests us in the least.

... just another personal contribution to the EFEF