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Topic: Silly Reason NOT To Use .ogm Extension... (Read 4122 times) previous topic - next topic
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Silly Reason NOT To Use .ogm Extension...

Not that this matters for most people, I'm sure, but I use the .avi extension with all my .divx and .ogm movies so that when I switch to the superfantastic thumbnail view, I see a preview of the file.

If I use the .divx or .ogm extensions, I just get that ugly WMP icon.

I'm sure you all needed to know that!

Silly Reason NOT To Use .ogm Extension...

Reply #1 –
Well I don't use the *.divx extension because I know that 9 out of 10 AVI on my HD are divx. And I do not use the *.ogm extension because I can easily tell which OGG are movies and which are audio only. Using OGM would be like using AVM for an AVI file with a video stream.

Silly Reason NOT To Use .ogm Extension...

Reply #2 –
Could Windows cope with you using something like '.movie.ogg', or is it braindead enough that it only looks past the last '.'?

Silly Reason NOT To Use .ogm Extension...

Reply #3 –
Yeah Windows is suprisingly ok with it. I can pretty much tell that if it is Mononoke Hime.ogg or Osmosis Jones.ogg that it is a movie. That and the 700Mb size gives it away immediatly. Plus I name em something like "Movie Name (Divx).ogg" "Movie Name (Xvid).ogg". So the OGM thing seems futime to me. On short video clips it could be a problem. But winamp's inability to handle ogg streams with video  would be a dead giveaway. And even when it can handle it the dialogue comming out the speakers is still a giveaway.