[vorbis-dev] Chained streams and granule position

[Ralph Giles]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 07:16  pm, Alejandro G. Belluscio 
wrote:

> r> The intent of the design is that chained streams should be played
> r> separately and in order. Streams to be played simultaneously (or
> r> concurrently) should be multiplexed.
>
> Which are not allowed in Vorbis File I specification :-/

Quite. I think Monty intends them to work with theora though. In his 
defense, all that means is conforming players aren't required to handle 
them , and for the generally intended purpose, the restriction is 
perfectly reasonable.

Doesn't mean players are required to not handle them, so if you have a 
specialized application where multiplexed vorbis audio mixed by the 
decoder makes sense, go ahead.

Where the spec *is* broken is that it allows decoders to choke on any 
multiplexed stream, rather than making a best effort. This should be 
changed for vorbis 1.1.

  -r

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