My god please no more yaml
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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.
.mka is a real file format, it's the Matroska audio container. Not very common, but I see them occasionally.
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.
Mkv is listed as container How is av1 better than HEVC? (I don’t know av1, only avi for crap quality movie files)
Edit: about 30% better and open ( source: https://www.howtogeek.com/778804/what-is-the-av1-codec/ (just disable JavaScript / use a reader to break through the paywall))
Yeah hi can someone explain the logic involved in advocating for Free Lossless Audio Codec as a method for storing photos?
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.
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?".
You can keep AV1 codec video inside .MKV container!
Yeah, that's my point
Documents: markdown.
config files: json/hjson
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.
Why odt over HTML?
AsciiDoc for plain text markup. It handles more use cases, and has fewer ambiguities in the standard than Markdown.
No MP3 for lossy audio? :(
MP3 is old embrace opus, high quality audio in small size!
The only reason for it is compatibility with specific software. It’s otherwise just worse.