[Icecast-dev] [libshout] Add mime/content-type parameter

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves justivo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 14:00:20 PDT 2008


On 9/24/08, Romain Beauxis <toots at rastageeks.org> wrote:
> First patch is 100% backward compatible, and only documents the new
> audio/ogg and video/ogg mime types.

"Documents" doesn't sound good.  A quick look at the patch seems to
imply that libshout doesn't act on those two.

> Second patch is not backward compatible and sets "audio/ogg" if you used the
> deprecated SHOUT_FORMAT_VORBIS.
> Furthermore, it adds new shout formats for ogg sub-types, namely
>  * SHOUT_FORMAT_OGG_AUDIO
>  * SHOUT_FORMAT_OGG_VIDEO
>
> Mime types are set accordingly for these formats, and SHOUT_FORMAT_VORBIS is
> then alised to SHOUT_FORMAT_OGG_AUDIO.

This sounds like a better approach.  When you say it's not
backward-compatible, do you reckon something would break?

I hope libshout doesn't require rewriting some parts.

-Ivo


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