On 10/11/06, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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I suspect they are routinely confused, the players
will obviously be happy
either way. If we can find enough evidence that .ogm is routinely used for
Ogg/Theora, then that would be my choice.
Enough? Can you find any at all?
Most of the OGM playing software I've seen (including mplayer with the
default compile options) can't even play theora... (or on windows
platforms, can't play without downloading a seperate codec).
As the Wikipedia article says: "OGMs most often carry video encoded in
the XviD format and audio in Vorbis or AC-3 (Dolby Digital)." The
Wikipedia article also links to several OGM tools... and the ones I
checked do not support Theora.
(Note that Xvid is an open source implimentation of MPEG4, like Lame
is an open source implimentation of MP3)
It's all sort of a silly argument when there are quite a few .OGG
videos on commons which are nothing other than AVIs renamed to ogg.
(I really should see if I can easily identify them from the mime type
field on the image table and just go mass convert them)..