[Vorbis] Extension proposal - partly serious

Dan Hollis goemon
Sun Jun 20 19:45:41 PDT 2004


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Paul Martin wrote:
> .ogg for purists, .ogv and .oga for realists.
>
> Ogg is a container format, just like *IFF. Should all WAV and AVI files
> be renamed .RIFF for consistency?
>
> By the way, citing the Mac harms your case. The "extension" part of a
> Mac file is the four character creator-ID stored in the resource fork,
> a standard mandated by the operating system, and directly equivalent to
> the 3 character extension given to DOS files. This four character
> creator-id indicates to the Finder which icon should displayed for that
> file, and which program should be used to open it.

Anyone else want to take this discussion to another mailing list? We can
hash out a standard there without interference from the people here who
just dont 'get it'.

-Dan



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