[Vorbis] Extension proposal - partly serious

[John Morton]

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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:04, Patrick Mauritz wrote:
>  On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:39:30PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
>  > OS shells are already slow enough without having to parse the container
>  > of every single file all the time. Please don't advocate making them
>  > slower.
>
>  let's see:
>   - win32 with ntfs: shell extension (some dll), ntfs streams
>   - mac os: resource forks, no idea if you can extend the shell as 3rd
> party, but I'd suspect so
>   - kde, gnome: extended attributes, .desktop files within directories, yet
>     another metadata cache (various exist already, eg. for thumbnails)
>   - beos: extended attributes
>   - other desktops: either similar mechanisms or no user friendly preview
>     behaviour in the first place
>
>  so, with these options your favorite shell can now provide dimensions of
> the video, lyrics, information about all languages that are available in
> this video, cd covers, etc etc that it can't provide with extensions - a
> unified extension (how about ".ogg"?) actually helps deciding if this shell
> extension should kick in or not, at least on mime-impaired systems.

Unfortunately, this requires a bunch of code to be written for each platform
before the basic problem of video files being associated with the video
playing app of preference is solved. Where as having the theora encoder
produce files with an extension like .ogv may be a little kludgey and perhaps
asthetically displeasing for some, but it does solve the immediate problem
right now.

John