[vorbis-dev] Mime Type and Ogg (More)

[Monty]

> On 18 Oct, Pavel Cisler wrote:
> 
> > You could for example have the following strings:
> > 
> > \003\005OggS\001\000
> > \003\005OggS\000\001
> > \003\005OggS\001\001
> > 
> > at offset 0 of your file format, identifying Ogg audio data, Ogg video
> > data and Ogg video with sound data respectively.

Aside from being totally inadequate, you also neglect to take into account any 
aspect of how the Ogg stream is formatted.

> Why not just change the extension? .vorbis, .squish, etc. Who cares that
> OGG is the basic format? The primary content is vorbis or squish...

Well, gee that only works for Windows... no, actually it doesn't work for
Windows either.  What happens with a stream using an overlay slideshow, a
Tarkin video stream and three Vorbis audio tracks?
.mng.tarkin.vorbis.vorbis.vorbis?  

C'mon folks.  Think.

Monty
(a bit testy that this flamewar has started again, and no one has learned a 
thing from the previous rounds)

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