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if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why (lemmy.ml)
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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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[–] Turun@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only annoying thing is that the extension for zstd compression is zst (no d). Tar does not recognize a zstd extension, only zst is automatically recognized and decompressed. Come on!

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If we're being entirely honest just about everything in the zstd ecosystem needs some basic UX love. Working with .tar.zst files in any GUI is an exercise in frustration as well.

I think they recently implemented support for chunked decoding so reading files inside a zstd archive (like, say, seeking to read inside tar files) should start to improve sooner or later but some of the niceties we expect from compressed archives aren't entirely there yet.

Fantastic compression though!

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

-I option?

[–] Turun@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure what that does.

Yes, you can use options to specify exactly what you want. But it should recognize .zstd as zstandard compression instead of going "I don't know what this compression is". I don't want to have to specify the obvious extension just because I typed zstd instead of zst when creating the file.