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

[Chris Jones]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 2:29:40 am Hikaru Amano wrote:
> On 4/18/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 20:04 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > And (confuse) applications.
> >
> > I think it's a bad idea, too.  There's a lot of things which go by the
> > name alone, and that makes it harder to do two different actions for
> > what seems like the same file type.

Applications that simply go by the extension name are doing it wrong and 
should be fixed. As it has already be pointed out there are better ways.

I have two ogg files on my (KDE) desktop now. video.ogg and audio.ogg

Both have the ogg extension, but if I click on video.ogg it correctly opens in 
my choosen video player (kaffeine). audio.ogg opens correctly in amarok, my 
audio player.

Chris