On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:54:30PM -0500, Clarence Risher wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:12:49PM -0400,
Simetrical wrote:
Obvious conclusion: let the MIME type and file
headers say whether
it's Theora or MPEG4, let the file extension say whether it's audio or
video. Otherwise the only way a user can tell whether something is
audio or video is by opening it, which is annoying.
. . . or by using a specific set of applications that will determine,
and show, that information for you -- which can also be annoying if you
don't happen to like those applications. I, for instance, am not a huge
fan of GUI file browsers. I prefer to use terminal emulator windows as
my "file browsers", with command line tools like ls and tree for viewing
directory contents and filesystem hierarchy.
Then you can do what non-GUI-file-browser users have done for over a
decade with their MP3 files. Use a file-header-reading program to
rename the files. Just because a few people can't read ID3 tags is not
a reason for everyone in the world to give their MP3s huge filenames.
I don't see how "huge filenames" have anything to do with . . .
anything.
This does raise a question for me, though:
considering that, as far as
I'm aware, there aren't any problems with MPEG4 that are solved by
wrapping it as an Ogg file (to make it Ogg/MPEG4) -- why bother? It's
kind of off-topic for this discussion, and maybe I'm missing something
important, but I don't see the point in making an MPEG4 file into an
Ogg/MPEG4 file except, perhaps, as some sort of kewler-than-thou
notation. Is there a technical benefit to this?
MPEG4 is less than optimal in a few areas, such as multilingual
subtitles. OGG+MPEG4 is a popular (relatively) choice among
fandub/fansub groups who translate foreign videos.
Thanks for the information. Now I know.
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