[ogg-dev] eos on continued page

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Jean-Marc Valin <
jean-marc.valin at usherbrooke.ca> wrote:

> >> There general idea with Ogg has been to distinguish non-fatal from
> >>  fatal errors. libogg reports these by returning -1 while still
> >>  returning the next valid bit of data.
> >
> > ok, would non-fatal translate into a SHOULD recommendation in the
> > spec, and fatal translate into a MUST?
>
> I assume there there are cases where a MUST isn't respected, yet libogg
> is still able to recover something. If it's just a SHOULD that isn't
> respected, it shouldn't be considered as an error in the first place.
>

Hmm, good point. Maybe it requires a MUST specification... But then, it
would not be conformant to have a partial packet on the last page....

S.
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