[vorbis-dev] audio/vorbis media type registration

[Monty]

> I asked a while ago whether Ogg can support QuickTime-like 
> abstraction or whether it's joined at the hip to its CODECs.  From 
> your statements, it sounds like the latter is the case.  In other 
> words, I can't open an arbitrary Ogg file, find all its audio tracks, 
> and manipulate or play them *without* having to know in advance that 
> they're Vorbis tracks (or that Vorbis tracks are audio tracks, as are 
> Squish tracks, as are raw PCM tracks, as are...).

The master TOC on multiplexed Ogg files (which don't yet exist; Vorbis
is using the degenerate case), will tag streams by media type such
that it is possible to identify audio, video, whatever, without having
codec knowledge.

Monty

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