[vorbis-dev] Metadata, file signatures, and extentions

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Tue Apr 18 17:03:55 PDT 2000



> Monty, is the metadata space at the beginning or at the end of the .ogg
> file?

The Vorbis comment header is at the beginning (it's the second stream packet).
The XML stream type would be a true stream.

> increase the volume in speaker 2 (right) by 30 percent. Speakers 1-6 are
> currently defined: Left, right, center, left back, right back, and
> subwoofer. That exceeds the current capabilities of Vorbis, right?

Well, it's orthogonal capability to Vorbis.  You can put any information into
the [proposed] Ogg metadata stream you want to... it's up to the playback
software to decide whether or not to ignore it ;-)

Monty

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