[vorbis-dev] Determining stream type

[Michael Smith]

Ralph Giles wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > Although the spec exists, the current libogg code doesn't deal with
> > non-degenerate bitstreams. That's something that will most likely be
> > added post-1.0, I think.
> 
> Really? There's no problem with doing multiple streams as far a the libogg
> api is concerned. Are you saying this code is broken?

True, the libogg code doesn't really care. However, you really want
explicit support for non-degenerate streams, which it doesn't have. The
alternatives get messy pretty quickly. 

So yes, you could use libogg as-is, but you wouldn't want to, at least
for more than two concurrent streams.

Michael

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