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current list of formats from yesterdays post (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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:

photos .jxl
open domain image data .exr
videos .av1
lossless audio .flac
lossy audio .opus
subtitles srt/ass
fonts .otf
container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
documents .odt
archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
configuration files toml
typesetting typst
interchange format .ora
models .gltf / .glb
daw session files .dawproject
otdr measurement results .xml

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wdym

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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?".