[Vorbis] .ogg extension and Theora

[Patrik Rådman]

In an article in mailing-lists.xiph.vorbis Paul Martin <pm at nowster.zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:49:42AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> >
> > I think that truncating the "ogg" bit in the extension is kind of ugly
> > and not really necessary these days.  How about ".oggv" or even ".oggvid"?
> > Not that it matters ;-)
>
> CD-ROMs and standalone audio/video players. Strict ISO9660 compliance
> means you have to stick to the 8.3 convention. If a player doesn't
> understand either Rock Ridge or Joliet extensions, some mangling will
> have to happen in the CD-ROM authoring side.

Silly argument. If a brain-dead player only understands basic ISO-9660,
but plays all types of Ogg, it will se .oggv and .ogga files as .OGG
files, and feed them to its generic Ogg handling code. Ergo, it will work