> i disagree with skip. i don't see the advantage to container formats. > they mostly encourage yet-another-(audio|video)-codex with some > neeto property that is inevitably less useful than standardization.
how did i encourage that? it's reasonable for 'file' to return something one can map to a handler, that can further crack it open. containers may be ugly but they're not the real problem - most if not all are described somewhere. the main issues is proprietary codecs. proprietary formats are marketing devices to protect turfs.
