[Vorbis] Extension proposal - partly serious

[Dan Hollis]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Arc Riley wrote:
> 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.

No sorry, we arent going to leave it alone. You just dont get it, and we
arent going to let you continue destroying ogg.

> 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.

Oh, like an extension! I'm glad you agree then.

> 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.

Obviously legal p2p isnt part of your plan either. So we're taking this
issue out of your hands.

-Dan