[vorbis-dev] Mime Type and Ogg

Ali Abdin aliabdin at aucegypt.edu
Fri Oct 13 13:15:33 PDT 2000



* David Carter (dcarter at sigfs.org) wrote at 18:14 on 13/10/00:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:25:33PM -0200, Ali Abdin wrote:
> > I was looking into adding Ogg support to gnome-vfs (virtual file system
> > library for GNOME). 
> > 
> > What I currently do for mime-magic checking is check for the "OggS" part at
> > the beginning. Is this correct?
> > 
> > Secondly - what is the "canonical" mime-type? Right now I am using
> > 'audio/x-ogg' - is this correct?
> 
> Actually, the cananical MIME type is currently application/x-ogg, as Ogg files
> will eventually have more than just audio in them.

This might be a problem. I want just to be able to detect the "audio"
mime-type part of Ogg (isn't Vorbis the name for the 'generic' project and Ogg
the name for the audio part?)

Regards,
Ali

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