On Monday, 24 October 2022 14:49:46 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-10-23, Dale <[email protected]> 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. -- Regards, Peter.
