Hi,
The Annodex Foundation is pleased to announce the general availability of
the Annodex Media Validation Service, a free service that checks
Web-accessible Ogg, CMML and Annodex media resources for conformance to
Annodex and Xiph.Org specifications:
http://validator.annodex.org/
Details about the operation of this service are available at:
http://validator.annodex.org/about.html
cheers,
Conrad.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:54:17PM +1100, Conrad Parker wrote:> http://validator.annodex.org/Thanks for setting this up, Conrad. It's really cool! -r
On 2/16/06, Conrad Parker <conrad@metadecks.org> wrote:> Hi, > > The Annodex Foundation is pleased to announce the general availability of > the Annodex Media Validation Service, a free service that checks > Web-accessible Ogg, CMML and Annodex media resources for conformance to > Annodex and Xiph.Org specifications: > > http://validator.annodex.org/ > > Details about the operation of this service are available at: > > http://validator.annodex.org/about.html >(You really don't want to know this I'm sure) I gave this a go this morning on the samples from <http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Metadata>, which are there mainly for the purpose of breaking things. They don't validate (which neither surprises nor upsets me), but I downloaded the oggz source and built oggz-validate to find out why and discovered that it segfaults, which it probably shouldn't (I didn't have time to look into the cause). As far as I know they are valid ogg bitstreams (ogginfo passes them okay), even if the contents aren't proper media types. On a completely irrelevant point, are the Annodex people aware of <http://www.songbirdnest.com/>? This is going to be an itunes-like media player/web browser built around XULRunner. From their website: "Songbird can view Web pages as dynamic playlists that it can play, save, or automatically download every day." -- imalone
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:25:07PM +0000, Ian Malone wrote:> (You really don't want to know this I'm sure) > I gave this a go this morning on the samples from > <http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Metadata>, which > are there mainly for the purpose of breaking things. > They don't validate (which neither surprises nor upsets > me), but I downloaded the oggz source and built oggz-validate > to find out why and discovered that it segfaults, which it > probably shouldn't (I didn't have time to look into the cause). > As far as I know they are valid ogg bitstreams (ogginfo passes > them okay), even if the contents aren't proper media types.ok, I did know that oggz-validate only passes things which are known media types (currently it knows about Vorbis, Theora, Speex, Flac, CMML, OggPCM(draft2) and Skeleton). I guess this is because the original reason for oggz-validate was to check interleaving order, for which it needs to be able to interpret granulepos. It's probably worth adding an option to disable those checks and only check the bitstream packing.> On a completely irrelevant point, are the Annodex people > aware of <http://www.songbirdnest.com/>? This is going > to be an itunes-like media player/web browser built around > XULRunner. From their website: "Songbird can view Web > pages as dynamic playlists that it can play, save, or > automatically download every day."very cool :) Conrad.