Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 17 18:20:44 UTC 2007


Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On 4/17/07, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/17/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ps. Who decided to give video ogg vorbis filenames same extension as
>> > audio ogg vorbis files?
>> > That feels totally wrong to me. That will confuse a lot of people.
>>
>> ogg is just the container format. It is able to contain both video
>> (mainly theora codec) and audio (mainly vorbis codec). It is pretty
>> flexible.
>>
>> /Mike
> 
> Ok, I know that already. And if I was a "newbie" i probably wouldn't
> even know how to find this mailing list.
> 
> My point is how would you answer to this question to your
> wife/girlfriend or brother/sister or even mother/father? That is the
> base or my question! And there is no answer that is good enough
> because there should be a CLEAR distinction in extension for ogg video
> and audio files IMHO.

Non-technical people don't care about extensions. They just want to 
click on a file and play it.

Rahul




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