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
  • @loops@beehaw.orgEnglish
    9•9 months ago

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

    • GamesRevolution
      18•9 months ago

      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