[vorbis-dev] Carrying non-audio data in an Ogg/Vorbis I stream

[Alejandro G. Belluscio]

Hello Svante,

Monday, October 28, 2002, 6:36:55 PM, you wrote:
>>-A meta-headerless Ogg file encapsulates the Vorbis I packets
>>-The Ogg stream may be chained, i.e. contain multiple, contigous
>>logical streams (links).
>>-The Ogg stream must be unmultiplexed (only one stream, a Vorbis
>>audio stream, per link).
>>
>>But is seems to imply that the player for 'Vorbis I audio file'
>>should only expect vorbis streams. If you put them at the end. Well,
>>may be the player only ate it after playing the music. But by
>>putting it between, that's not only non compilant but downright
>>unexpected.

SS> Exactly. But the current best proposal is to simply concatenate a
SS> non-vorbis Ogg-stream at the end.

SS> Do you have any practical real-world knowledge how existing
SS> players will actually interpret let's say a file consisting of
SS> three separate Ogg-streams, the first and the third being
SS> Vorbis-streams, and the middle one being 'unkown'?
Not really. But you could simply try :-) What I do know is that ID3
tags have caused all kind of trouble. If I understand them correctly
they are also concatenated at the end of the file. Even though not ogg
framed. So it's not a valid test.

Regards,
Alejandro

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