[vorbis-dev] Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, Ogg FLAC

[P Oscar Boykin]

First of all,

let me say that I don't know the current library very well.  But what I
would like to see libraries all support the same interface for dealing
with packets taken from an ogg file.

So, you could look into the ogg file, see what type of packets it has.
Using only that information, try to load a plugin to handle them, which
will make use of one interface.

In this way, all players that use speex, vorbis, flac, theora....  can
look into the ogg, get the type of that packet, load the decoder plugin,
and start sending that plugin packets.

I know Monty is supposedly working on a more unified framework.  Perhaps
this is what he is doing now?

Oscar.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:46:46PM +0100, Csillag Krist?f wrote:
> Now that FLAC has officionally joined the Xiph family,
> there are three different free audio codecs, which can be
> stored/transported using the ogg container.
> 
> Would it be possible to create an API and/or a library that
> would cover them all?
> 
> If my understanding of the situation is correct, if an application wants
> to support vorbis, speex and flac, it has to use three different
> interfaces. (That's what Stan Seibert is doing right now with ogg123.)
> 
> If a unifying library would exist, application developers should only
> code one interface. This would make things a lot more simple.
> 
> This could also help to spread speex and flac more quickly, because if
> vorbis-aware applications start to use the new, unified library, they
> get very near to speex and flac support... 
> 
> What do you think, does this make sense?
> 
> -- 
> Csillag Krist?f <fenwick at freemail.hu>
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