[Wikipedia-l] Theora / ogg usage

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Tue Mar 15 20:51:40 UTC 2005


Sj wrote:

>[2] Article containing one of the only known video files on Wikipedia :
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy
>
I was about to write a mail asking you where in the world there's a 
video file on that page, but after about 10 minutes of looking and 
mouseovering every single link, I finally figured out that the .ogg file 
on that page is actually a video file.  Even using Mozilla Firefox on 
Linux, clicking on the link spawned my audio player, due to the .ogg 
extension, which in typical use means "Ogg Vorbis audio file".

.ogm (for "Ogg Media") is a de-facto standard extension for Ogg files 
containing video, but I'm not aware of whether Xiph.org has a position 
on that.

I'm not sure whether sending the right content-type headers would fix 
the problem; perhaps it would?  At the very least, it should say on the 
page that this is in fact a video file, rather than hoping that people 
will be able to infer that it's supposed to be a video file...

-Mark




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