[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPCF proposal (yet another name)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:26:41AM +0100, Dan Christiansen wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 03:37 AM, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> >Please, can we cut the name proposals that don't have anything
> >special/significant about them and that aren't even pronouncible? We
> >could come up with a hundred different three-letter acronyms for stuff
> >like this, but they're all the same and totally boring and lifeless.
> >Kinda like MCF. :(
> >
> >Rich
> 
> How about MEF, "MEdia Format" or "MEdia File"? It has the advantages of 
> being pronounceable and currently unused. A variation could be EMF, 
> "Extensible Media Format", but the extension seems to be taken by 

Not to mention that it misrepresents the format. "Extensibility" (i.e.
XML-like nonsense) is not the goal of the design.

> Out of the previous suggestions, I'd prefer NUT. However, it has the 
> downside of not really sounding like a professional quality media 
> container.

Professional? Blah, I would call these stupid acronyms
buzzword-compliant/marketoid crap, not professional. Anyway,
'professionals' don't use this stuff anyway; home users who want to
archive their movies do.

Rich