[ogg-dev] packets and OGG pages

Conrad Parker conrad at metadecks.org
Wed Mar 14 18:18:25 PDT 2007


On 15/03/07, Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:23:47PM +0000, Mathias Kunter wrote:
> >
> > In contrast to that, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3533.txt stats the following:
> > "Ogg Vorbis provides the name and revision of the Vorbis codec,
> > the audio rate and the audio quality on the Ogg Vorbis bos page.
> > It also uses TWO additional header pages per logical bitstream."Sounds like ogg would ALWAYS use a total of three header PAGES for its three header PACKAGES. Is this actually the case?
>
> Ouch. This is incorrect. It should read "It uses two additional header
> packets per logical bitstream."

Yow. Ralph, Silvia, should we consider creating an updated Ogg
Internet-Draft and fixing / clarifying this and any other recent
issues?

Silvia, do you still have the source for RFC3533?

Conrad.


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