There seems to be a great deal of talk about adding every conceivable type of metadata to vorbis. Everyone sees this as an opportunity to add the little obscure feature they've always wanted. I don't know if Monty will agree, but I think for the most part this transcends the scope of vorbis. I think it would be much more appropriate to create some sort of general-purpose framing format that can incorporate both the metadata and the vorbis bitstream and can seperate them, having the player do with the metadata what it will and passing the bitstream onto its respective decoder. This draws to light the current state of affairs of media under *IX environments. With no large corporation there to cram (god awful) standards down everyone's throats, everything seems to be incredibly disconnected and unorganized. I think this has become fairly obvious with the addition of vorbis support to many indivdual programs and dealing with the individual problems incurred therein. I'm not saying MCI is a good implementation, for assuredly it is not. But I believe the driving concept is sound. Is bringing some sort of standard media interface to the *IX environment not a worthwhile goal to work toward? Tony Arcieri --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
> There seems to be a great deal of talk about adding every conceivable type > of metadata to vorbis. Everyone sees this as an opportunity to add the > little obscure feature they've always wanted. I don't know if Monty will > agree, but I think for the most part this transcends the scope of vorbis.Yes, Vorbis is just a Codec, but that's more a semantic issue.> I think it would be much more appropriate to create some sort of > general-purpose framing format that can incorporate both the metadata and > the vorbis bitstream and can seperate them, having the player do with the > metadata what it will and passing the bitstream onto its respective > decoder.Yes, Ogg Streams are already designed to do this and the stream mixing/seperation code already exists. Monty --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/