[vorbis-dev] application/ogg is a proposed Internet standard.

[David Waite]

Dan Miller wrote:

>as far as the identification problem goes --
> 
>I had a reasonably long discussion with Monty about this.  The present theory of operation is as follows (Monty as always, please correct if I'm wrong):
> 
>Each logical stream has an identification header.  By convention, this header must include magic data that uniquely identifies the required codec.  IE, after the packet ID, vorbis headers contain the string "vorbis"; theora headers say "theora", etc.
>
Is this string terminated by a nul character? I wonder if the IANA rules 
for registration of mime types would be suitable (vorbis and perhaps 
theora being the primary exceptions - these could be something like 
audio/vnd.xiph.vorbis and video/vnd.xiph.theora).

-David Waite

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