Why Does VLC Include Non-Media Extensions?

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Why Does VLC Include Non-Media Extensions?

Postby DasFox » 13 Jan 2008 00:20

Something that has struck me as odd are the use of non-media extensions.

.ps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript

.bin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image#.BIN.2F.CUE
http://www.iceteks.com/articles.php/binfile/1

.cue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image#.BIN.2F.CUE

Why does VLC use these extensions? I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the USA, these extensions are not used for media playback...

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Re: Why Does VLC Include Non-Media Extensions?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 13 Jan 2008 00:52

cue, and bin are data formats, that can contain video, as some dumps of VCD for example.

ps files are mpeg ps streams.

So those are media extensions.
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