It's sadly absurd when a community built around the concept of technical excellence for its own sake is criticizing and ridiculing someone for delivering technical information just because it might eventually encourage the improving of certain behaviors. What is it about people who cringe from the implication of maybe eventually considering changing a behavior, as if a taskmaster just cracked a whip over their head this very moment? Are we sheep?
Learning file formats is not entertaining, and isn't self-serving to 100% of the population. Oh well. Get over it or ignore it. The information is entirely well founded in principle, well reasoned, objectively proven, and re-explained in a more-than-patient-and-thorough fashion in the face of blatant incoherence and naysaying. Please share legitimate concerns, but there is no reason to detract or obfuscate an idea just for the sake of naysaying.
While we're on the subject of potentially altering behaviors for a better experience, we may as well invite people to use <a href="
http://mplayerhq.hu">real</a> <a href="
http://videolan.org">software</a> to play their files with as well.
Perhaps it would help if someone elaborated on the problems people are having with playing these nonstandard AVI files, so that more naysayers and people who learn through experience rather than principles will understand the potential gravity of the situation. As an example of creative compromise instead of pointless naysaying and bleating, maybe we can publish both formats (avi vs. mkv/mp4) for some time.
Let's get back to the idea of doing our best to pursue technical excellence for its own sake.