[vorbis-dev] Re: xml-like streams in Ogg.

[Pamel]

"Monty" <xiphmont at xiph.org> wrote in message
news:20021230233259.GD512 at lips.xiph.org...
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:14:55AM +0100, ChristianHJW wrote:
> >
> > "Petr Tomasek" <tomasek at etf.cuni.cz> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:20021229163741.A25766 at ebed.etf.cuni.cz...
> > > Hello!
> > > I've played in the last couple of days with an idea of having (binary)
> > > 'xml-like' streams in Ogg. This would make possible having metadata:
> >
> > http://sf.net/projects/ebml
> > http://matroska.org
> >
> > Sorry for the 'advertising' on a list with similar goals, but our
project is
> > more or less doing exactly what you propose ....
>
> No, Matroska makes binary XML the entire container transport mechanism
> (at least, that's the way your description reads).  He's talking about
> an XML logical stream type, which is the way Ogg will approach it.

Nevertheless, it may be prudent to follow and contribute to EBML and USF as
people will undoubtedly want to store USF subtitles in OGG at some point.
This will become especially important once Theora is released.

Pamel

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