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
  • Kazumara@feddit.de
    2·
    9 months ago

    OTDR measurement results in like XML or whatever open self documenting format, just not SOR. Or even just in actual standards compliant SOR, if that’s all I can get.

      • Kazumara@feddit.de
        1·
        9 months ago

        OTDR: Optical Time Domain Reflectometry
        SOR: Standard OTDR Record
        XML: Extensible Markup Language

        .sor files are a mess, poorly standardized, too restrictive as a format, and every manufacturer makes their own proprietary extensions.

          • Kazumara@feddit.de
            1·
            9 months ago

            An OTDR sends pulses of laser light into a fiber optic cable and records the minute reflections that occur at every point of the cable over time. The time of arrival of the reflections corresponds to the position of where it was reflected. This way you can record the attenuation of an entire cable just from shining in pulses from one end. Good for checking if a new cable was properly installed, or for finding the location of issues in existing cables for debugging.