[ogg-dev] Feedback on XML metadata namespace

[Ralph Giles]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 11:37:05AM +0100, Ian Malone wrote:

> This needs more support.  CMML already uses fragment identifiers
> to label clips and there is also a need to be able to find the
> labelled resource.

And earlier wrote:

> <video encoding="application/theora+ogg" />
> et cetera, I think you want to avoid duplicating technical
> metadata like this which is held in Ogg Skeleton.  Within
> a stream anyway, maybe for separate description of media
> files it might be worthwhile.

I think the issue here is that was need some way to refer to 
particular substreams in the Ogg stream, the way Skeleton
does. <video> presumedly always refers to a video/ogg stream
in our application, and even a video/theora stream since it's
an internal reference. But what if there are multiple multiplexed
video streams.

A URI/URL scheme for referencing streams would be a generally useful
thing. Should we override the query mechanism like the time fragment
draft? "?oggserial=0x15323421" ?

 -r