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On 2022-10-23, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> That is true on Linux. Most linux software could care less what the |
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> extension is or if it even has one. Heck, you could likely change a |
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> .mp4 to .txt and it would open with a video player just by clicking on |
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> it. Thing is, if I share a file with someone who uses windoze, I'm not |
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> sure if it would work the same way. A wrong extension could cause |
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> problems, either not opening at all or crashing something. It's |
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> windoze, one can't expect much. ROFL |
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A friend of mine once spent days trying to re-encode a video file into |
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a format that could be handled by a particular windows app. No matter |
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what codecs/parameters he tried, the app couldn't open the file. He |
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finally figured out that the app in question had hard requirements for |
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the filename suffix, and they chose a somewhat non-nstandard extension |
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for that container format. |
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It turned out that any of the codec/parameter combinations would have |
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been fine, it was just the filename that was causing the problem. |
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Grant |
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