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
- SmoochyPit ( @SmoochyPit@beehaw.org ) English16•9 months ago
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.
- Davel23 ( @Davel23@kbin.social ) 3•9 months ago
.mka is a real file format, it’s the Matroska audio container. Not very common, but I see them occasionally.
- exu ( @exu@feditown.com ) English3•9 months ago
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.
- Petter1 ( @Petter1@lemm.ee ) 1•9 months ago
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))
- loops ( @loops@beehaw.org ) English10•9 months ago
I prefer .mkv for videos because I’m a degenerate weeb and .mkv can have subtitles baked into them.
- GamesRevolution ( @GamesRevolution@programming.dev ) 18•9 months ago
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: mkvAs 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
- loops ( @loops@beehaw.org ) English7•9 months ago
Did you know that av1 is my favourite video format? Me neither!
wdym
- melooone ( @melooone@feddit.de ) 1•9 months 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?”.
- the_lone_wolf ( @the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml ) 16•9 months ago
You can keep AV1 codec video inside .MKV container!
- GamesRevolution ( @GamesRevolution@programming.dev ) 1•9 months ago
Yeah, that’s my point
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 7•9 months ago
Documents: markdown.
config files: json/hjson
if you disagree dont feel afraid to comment, please do
- Yuumi ( @Ozzy@lemmy.ml ) English1•9 months ago
Damn I read this as
" If you disagree, don’t comment"
mwahahahahaha
- Miku Luna \ she/it ( @backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•9 months ago
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.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English4•9 months ago
Why odt over HTML?