[ogg-dev] Re: [Vorbis] metadata

Conrad Parker
Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:37:38 -0000

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:44:50PM +0000, Ian Malone
wrote:
>
> Skeleton
> also has the problem for simple applications that it wants to be
> the first page, which will cause libvorbisfile based Ogg/Vorbis
> players to choke.  Not that libvorbisfile doesn't need to be
> updated to play something that isn't strictly Vorbis-I anyway;
> but, as it is, players which do return-value checks seem to survive,
> as long as they get the Vorbis bos first.

yeah, this is a more general problem with libvorbisfile -- it's not just
that libvorbisfile expects vorbis to be the first bos page, but that it
also expects the stream to contain only vorbis logical bitstreams. It
fails similarly on streams containing theora video.

cheers,

Conrad.