Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 24 October 2022 14:49:46 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2022-10-23, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> > That is true on Linux.  Most linux software could care less what the
> > extension is or if it even has one.  Heck, you could likely change a
> > .mp4 to .txt and it would open with a video player just by clicking on
> > it.  Thing is, if I share a file with someone who uses windoze, I'm not
> > sure if it would work the same way.  A wrong extension could cause
> > problems, either not opening at all or crashing something.  It's
> > windoze, one can't expect much.  ROFL
>
> A friend of mine once spent days trying to re-encode a video file into
> a format that could be handled by a particular windows app. No matter
> what codecs/parameters he tried, the app couldn't open the file. He
> finally figured out that the app in question had hard requirements for
> the filename suffix, and they chose a somewhat non-nstandard extension
> for that container format.
>
> It turned out that any of the codec/parameter combinations would have
> been fine, it was just the filename that was causing the problem.

So the hubris of those two college dropouts still haunts the Windows world. 
What a legacy.

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Regards,
Peter.