[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Re: MPCF Draft/Discussion (MPlayer ContainerFormat)

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

> According to http://filext.com .box has 5 different applications using
> it.  .nut on the other hand doesn't seem to be used.
And also .egg is used (.EGG  EGG Solution 360RealTour)
One more argue against egg ;)

> > Maybe .med (for media) would be nice, but it sounds somehow like
> > medicine/medical too. Although on the other hand, this new format
> > could also be described as medicine for problems/shortcomings of
> > other file formats ;-) Maybe there are other good names like this
> > that I can't come up with right now.
> 
> I don't like it (but then since i can't code or write specs or
> anything my opinion doesn't matter that much).  ^_^
too medical..and we don't like dentist ;)

> > mpl (for mplayer) is good too though. why not be proud of the fact
> > that mplayer developers thought of it, and keep that in the name?
> 
> The extension doesn't seem to be used for anything on Windows, but
> it's not that memorable.
Too mplayer specific

> >>And I still vote against egg because its similarity to ogg. It might
> >>imply things we don't even want to imply, and people will ask
> >question>after question...
> > 
> > I'd say the name should be as simple and straight forward as
> > possible. that's only me, though :-)
> 
> If an Egg theme was desired why not use .ova?  Of course that's
> already used on Windows, although i don't think it's commonly used.

Why OVA? Anyway, it's used by Sierra..

Btw, filext.com is nice ;)

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Alex Beregszaszi  <alex at naxine.org>
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