[vorbis-dev] streaming metadata requirements

[Monty]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:50:43PM -0700, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Another obvious solution is to make a substream that's nothing but
> > vorbis comment header packets, and update that way. This is *really*
> 
> Why put it in a separate substream?  We could just change the spec to
> allow new headers halfway into the "normal" stream (the spec doesn't
> specifically disallow it at the moment, even).

I intend that it is disallowed.  The comment header is not for
streamed metadata, and doing this behind the chaining mechanism's back
breaks or compromises design assumptions in the Ogg layer.

Monty

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