current list of formats from yesterdays post

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if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because...

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
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videos .av1 (someone mentioned mka or something like that, cant recall but thet mentiomed it being a 'container')

Yes, you’ll never see an av1 file. Typically it’s in a webm container. mkv is common too.

People tend to like videos with audio and subtitles.

For videos, I bet it was .mkv they mentioned. mkv can have different codecs and different tracks, including audio and subtitles. I see it used often for tv and movies. I’m not sure if there’s disadvantages to it for general videos, like ones shot right from a camera.

I’ve been happy with .7z or .tar.* for file archiving and compression, but I don’t know the pros or cons of each. I think there’s room for different methods of compression though, so a standard format should be able to use multiple.

For font families, .otf seems good for realtime text rendering. Seems any newer standards are mostly targeted at graphic design.

Afaik the disadvantage to mkv is that it supports everything. That makes fully supporting and testing every case rather difficult and it's why webm, a subset of mkv, was created.

.mka is a real file format, it's the Matroska audio container. Not very common, but I see them occasionally.

I prefer .mkv for videos because I'm a degenerate weeb and .mkv can have subtitles baked into them.

Mkv not so much a video format as it is a container format, so maybe it could be separated like this:

Video format: av1
Audio format: opus/flac
Subtitle format: srt/ass
Thumbnail format: jxl
Container format: mkv

As far as I know mkv supports all the formats outlined in this list and multiple streams of it.

Edit: I was wrong about the thumbnail format, it only supports jpg and png

Did you know that av1 is my favourite video format? Me neither!

wdym

I think he's saying that he just learned about av1 and made it his favourite video format. Like this perhaps: "How did I not know about this thing?".

if you disagree dont feel afraid to comment, please do

Damn I read this as

" If you disagree, don't comment"

mwahahahahaha

markdown (md) or org for notes/things that don't require much formatting.

I'm not in a place to make points for which one's better.