[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[Michael Smith]

>The comment header is a list of eight-bit-clean vectors; the number of
vectors 
>is bounded to 2^32 and the length of each vector is limited to 2^32 bytes.
 The 
>vector length is encoded; the vector is not null terminated.  In addition
to the 
>vector list, there is a single vector for vendor name (also 8 bit clean,
length 
>encoded in 32 bits).  Libvorbis currently sets the vendor string to
"Xiphophorus 
>libVorbis I 20000508"

The vector length is encoded? This information isn't available, currently,
if so. The vorbis_comments structure gives the NUMBER of comments, the
vendor string, and the comments themselves - but right now, we HAVE to
assume they're null terminated. This would be a good thing to fix soon, if
it's not meant to be like this, before there's too much software around
that assumes they will always be null terminated.

Michael

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