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> Do you mean the file extension should only reflect the file format and not the codecs it has inside ? That's pretty much always been the case. File extension

by lxgr 1y ago

> Do you mean the file extension should only reflect the file format and not the codecs it has inside ? That's pretty much always been the case. File extensions are just not expressive enough to capture all the nuances of audio and video codecs. MIME types are a bit better. Audio is a bit of an exception with the popularity of MP3 (which is both a codec and a relatively minimal container format for it).

o11c 1y ago
If only people would actually bother to write the codecs in the MIME type in the first place ...
- lxgr 1y ago
  Easier said than done, when there's no commonly accepted standard to store a file's MIME type as metadata, and you don't want to load all of ffmpeg into every webserver or file browser just so it can expose the proper granular one.
  - o11c 1y ago
    I mean, there is the xattr `user.mime_type`.