Is Microsoft being cruel to OGG?
Carlo Capocasa <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.advocacy |
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Hi! I just installed a copy of Windows XP inside a heavily guarded and quarantined QEMU partition and got me a copy of Windows Media Player 10 so I could test my OGG files in that environment... So when I installed WMP10 it suggested I associate OGG files with it, which I was pleasantly surprised by, but it asks to associate OGG files with the file extensions, hold your horses 'OGA' and 'OGV', and no mention of 'OGG'. (To be fair, 'SPX' is there correctly) Now I know couple of 'renegades' (kidding) outrageously renamed ogg video files to 'OGM' to distinguish, which is already frowned upon by the OGG community. Now what about 'OGA' and 'OGV'? This looks suspicously like a tactic to create more consumer lock-in by making WMV the only format simple enough for a non-tech-interested user to play videos with. It is well known a lead Microsoft developer made it clear in a memo to his boss that the only reason Microsoft is still in business is consumer and developer level customer lock in. First off, are my suspicions grounded, or has there been an agreement by Xiph for Microsoft to name OGG files OGA and OGV? If not, what can be done about this? Carlo