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Speaking of Metadata, how's work going on the definition? Looking back at the list archives, there seems to be a semi-plan to use Robert Kay's DTD from http://www.cdindex.org/dtd/TrackInfo.dtd, but I'm conserned that it's too specialized for video and we'll end up having a special case for audio-only files. There are a couple of general issues here. Micheal Smith suggested on irc that an important distinction to make is between "timecoded" data like audio, vide...

...and we made some progress in compromising our visions. On the static and stream identification metadata there was a tenative decision to go with RDF, but in such as way that a limited player could choose not to support it and still be able to play the a/v data. Robert mentioned trying to work his Trackinfo DTD into a set of attributes, but I haven't heard if he's gotten to it. Again, I would push to unify music, film, and video here. One thing I don't know how to treat is liner notes in multiple languages. It's not uncommon for classical music to be distributed with extensive liner n...