1 yr. ago • 94%

current list of formats from yesterdays post

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

28 comments

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.

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- 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.
  
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- 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))
  
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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.

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Yeah hi can someone explain the logic involved in advocating for Free Lossless Audio Codec as a method for storing photos?

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- So you can hear the photos real good
  
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- FLAC causes synesthesia.
  
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- list amended LMFAO
  
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I prefer .mkv for videos because I'm a degenerate weeb and .mkv can have subtitles baked into them.

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- 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
  
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  Did you know that av1 is my favourite video format? Me neither!
  
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- You can keep AV1 codec video inside .MKV container!
  
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  Yeah, that's my point
  
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Documents: markdown.

config files: json/hjson

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if you disagree dont feel afraid to comment, please do

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- Damn I read this as
  
  " If you disagree, don't comment"
  
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  mwahahahahaha
  
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Why odt over HTML?

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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.

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No MP3 for lossy audio? :(

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- MP3 is old embrace opus, high quality audio in small size!
  
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- The only reason for it is compatibility with specific software. It’s otherwise just worse.
  
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AsciiDoc for plain text markup. It handles more use cases, and has fewer ambiguities in the standard than Markdown.

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- Have you seen djot? It's from the author of pandoc.
  
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- Org mode is much better, using === for headings is dogshit
  
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