It's confusing and I hate it - I like to know what a file is by the extension (IE .ogg can be a divx movie in an ogg container OR a ogg audio file - I hate that) but the powers that be decided the kind of file should be described in the container and not the extension.
Actually, a .ogg can be a divx (or Theora) movie file or a _Vorbis_ audio file. Ogg is just the container format.
It makes a lot of sense to encode the container type in the extension; the OS needs to know what container handler to pass the file off to. That container handler can then look inside the file and use the appropriate codecs to handle the content. Note that a given container file can contain multiple streams with different codecs (and even different media types), so an extension based on the media type (such as .oggv) wouldn't be feasible.
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