[vorbis-dev] ov_comment spec

[Ralph Giles]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, chad wrote:

> > I'm not sure what you're proposing here. Ogg123 is pretty rough code, and
> > the analysis could certainly be more elegant. The intent (well, mine
> > anyway) was just to distinguish canonical from custom comments as a policy
> > example. I remember the vc query api needed work (did that ever happen?)
> > but I'm not sure what else needs wrapping.
> 
> Oh, i was just commenting on the fact that it is one of the only places i
> could find something that reads comment info, and it didn't even use the
> ov_comment functions (could be it came before the library calls)

I believe so. :)

> > 
> > Be aware that the vorbis comment header really is just intended for brief,
> > identificatory metadata. More complete metadata, as well as separate
> > tracks like lyrics will go in a separate stream type, probably xml based.
> > This we need serious help with, including a good api!
> > 
> 
> I'd love to help out on this. 

Hooray! My recruiting average here is abysmal.

> I see that someone else has done a perl mp3info knockoff, i guess i should
> have said something to the list earlier about OggInfo... whatever.

Yep. And *I* was planning on using the same name for my substream analysis
and dumping tool. Can probably work that into oggmerge, though.

Cheers,
 -r

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