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if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why (lemmy.ml)
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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:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
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[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

matroska for media, we already have MKA for audio and MKV for video. An image container would be good too.

mp4 is more prone to data loss and slower to parse, while also being less flexible, despite this it seems to be a sort of pseudo standard.

(MP4, M4A, HEIF formats like heic, avif)

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

wait why not av4 or jpegxl

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

those are media formats, not containers.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

A mp4 file contains media in, for example, h264 and AAC codec, which is the combined for playback. It is not a codec itself.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

im compiling summarised list in body, what do i put this under and what file extensions