On 2022-10-23, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> 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. -- Grant
