[ogg-dev] How Ogg mappings translate into the codecs parameter in Ogg media types

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves justivo at gmail.com
Fri May 30 09:20:29 PDT 2008


I received the following comment regarding the table:

> The table contains a mix of octal and hexadecimal 'escape sequences'
> for non-printable / non-ASCII octets.
> I strongly suggest to only use a single kind of numerical escapes.

Is this feasible or even desired, or should we leave things as they are?

For reference, this is how the table looks right now:

Codec Identifier             | Codecs Parameter
-----------------------------------------------------------
 char[5]: 'BBCD\0'            | dirac
 char[5]: '\177FLAC'          | flac
 char[7]: '\x80theora'        | theora
 char[7]: '\x01vorbis'        | vorbis
 char[8]: 'Speex   '          | speex
 char[8]: 'OggMIDI\0'         | midi
 char[8]: 'CMML\0\0\0\0'      | cmml
 char[8]: '\211PNG\r\n\032\n' | png
 char[8]: '\212MNG\r\n\032\n' | mng
 char[8]: '\213JNG\r\n\032\n' | jng
 char[8]: 'CELT    '          | celt
 char[8]: 'PCM     '          | pcm
 char[9]: '\x80kate\0\0\0\0'  | kate
 char[9]: 'YUV4MPEG2'         | yuv4mpeg

(Don't expect it to look pretty without a monospaced font)

-Ivo


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