[vorbis-dev] Xiph Magic

[Beni Cherniavsky]

J C Fitzgerald wrote on 2003-07-18:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:35:12AM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> >
> > There is already a detailed Vorbis entry, distributed with the latest
> > file(1) versions.
> >
> Oh, okay.  My system's a little older.
>
> >
> > I just wonder what is "Native Vorbis" and "Native Speex"?
> > It seems that you are detecting standalone Vorbis/Speex packets with
> > no wrapper whatsoever.
> >
> Correct.
>
> >
> > The problem is that such a thing is
> > undecodable - you need some way to mark the packet boundaries.  So no
> > such beasts exist.
> >
> That would be why I had to synthesis the test data for these.  Perhaps
> "Feral", "Pathological" or "Liberated" would be better adjectives than
> "Native", then.  :-)
>
In any case, there is little point in having file(1) magic for
recognizing broken files that AFAIK has never been observerved in the
wild :-).


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>

If I don't hack on it, who will?  And if I don't GPL it, what am I?
And if it itches, why not now?  [With apologies to Hilel ;]
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