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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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:

photos .jxl
open domain image data .exr
videos .av1
lossless audio .flac
lossy audio .opus
subtitles srt/ass
fonts .otf
container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
documents .odt
archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
configuration files toml
typesetting typst
interchange format .ora
models .gltf / .glb
daw session files .dawproject
otdr measurement results .xml

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely FLAC for audio because it's lossless, if you record from a high fidelity source....

exFAT for external hard drives and SD cards because both Windows and Mac can read and write to it as well as Linux. And you don't have the permission pain....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What permission pain?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you were to format the drive with extra and then copy something to it from Linux - if you try open it on another Linux machine (eg you distro hop after this event) it won't open the file because your aren't the owner.

Then you have to jump though hoops trying to make yourself the owner just so you can open your own file.

I learnt this the hard way so I just use exFAT and it all works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then you have to jump though hoops trying to make yourself the owner just so you can open your own file.

I mean, if you want to set permissions on a drive to a userid and groupid in /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the current machine:

$ sudo chown -R /mnt/olddrive username
$ sudo chgrp -R /mnt/olddrive groupname

That's not that painful, though I guess it could take a while to run on a drive with a lot of stuff.