[vorbis-dev] Comments ect

[Jack Moffitt]

I put it up in the interim at www.vorbis.com/~jack/v-comment.html

jack.

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:54:43AM -0600, Shawn Pourchot wrote:
> Anyone know where the vcomment.html document is?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Moffitt [mailto:jack at icecast.org]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 2:16 AM
> To: vorbis-dev at xiph.org
> Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] Comments ect
> 
> 
> > I foresee a problem here, with the UI, namely that it won't be portable.
> > Unless someone knows of a good cross-platform gui package I don't see
> > how we can make one program that works on Windows (native gui), Linux
> > (GTK? QT?), BeOS (native) etc. So there'd have to be either a whole
> > bunch of programs, or we'd need to create an abstraction layer in
> > between the app and the GUI part.
> 
> The vorbis comment routines should be part of the api, at least the
> parts that are reasonable.  I believe mike did those changes already.
> As for cross platform GUI stuff, I'm a fan of GTK, which is maturing
> quite nicely for win32.  But, a lot of times, win32 users use
> applications differently that people do in Linux.  That's why there's a
> win32-tools module, with win32 specific tools in there.  Considering
> that marketshare that win32 has, and the trivial amount of code
> involved, there should probably be a win32 only comment gui.  Win32 API
> isn't that hard, (look at the oggdrop source), and any decent book will
> get you going fairly quickly.
> 
> > > What I'm emphasizing is using the already existing standard of ID tags
> in
> > > compressed music. This would make commenting availible through a wide
> range of
> > > platforms and players.
> > 
> > But there's an Ogg tag standard already! (I think, Monty/Jack?)
> 
> Yes, several standard tags are defined in vcomment.html.  If you have
> any additional suggestoins, post them :)
> 
> jack.
> 
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