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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I prefer .mkv for videos because I'm a degenerate weeb and .mkv can have subtitles baked into them.

[–] GamesRevolution 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mkv not so much a video format as it is a container format, so maybe it could be separated like this:

Video format: av1
Audio format: opus/flac
Subtitle format: srt/ass
Thumbnail format: jxl
Container format: mkv

As far as I know mkv supports all the formats outlined in this list and multiple streams of it.

Edit: I was wrong about the thumbnail format, it only supports jpg and png

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you know that av1 is my favourite video format? Me neither!

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

I think he's saying that he just learned about av1 and made it his favourite video format. Like this perhaps: "How did I not know about this thing?".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can keep AV1 codec video inside .MKV container!

[–] GamesRevolution 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's my point