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if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jackpot@lemmy.ml to c/linux@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:

photos .jxl
open domain image data .exr
videos .av1
lossless audio .flac
lossy audio .opus
subtitles srt/ass
fonts .otf
container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
documents .odt
archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
configuration files toml
typesetting typst
interchange format .ora
models .gltf / .glb
daw session files .dawproject
otdr measurement results .xml

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[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

.gltf/.glb for models. It's way less of a headache than .obj and .dae, while also being way more feature rich than either.

Either that or .blend, because some things other than blender already support it and it'd make my life so much easier.

[–] mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

USD is basically this, and is supported everywhere, give it a look!

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

USD is more for scenes than models. It's meant primarily for stuff like 3dsmax and blender, and is far more complex than gltf.

It's also not really supported everywhere. Pretty much every game engine lacks support for USD, while most (except unity for some reason) have at least some gltf support.

USD is also, at least as far as I'm concerned, dead in the water. I have never encountered a single USD file in the wild, though that might just be because I mainly only work in blender and godot.

I'm not against USD, and I'd love to see it get some more love, but it serves a different purpose than gltf.

[–] mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Right, haha, I forgot about those! Sorry, I was only really thinking of different modeling software.

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