[vorbis-dev] granulepos start/end revisited

[André Pang]

On 24/05/2004, at 2:25 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:

>> But if it is supposed to be a generic time-stamped metadata format it 
>> should
>> be able to handle diverse uses. In such a case it wouldn't be theora 
>> in the
>> other stream, but some kind of numerical or graphical data stream, 
>> with the
>> meta data annotating it.
>>
> From the OggWrit wiki:
>
> *Introduction*
> Ogg Writ is a text phrase codec.
>
> According to the wiki, it is NOT supposed to be a generic 
> thyme-seasoned metadata format. Someone go write ogg/xml, or I'm sure 
> monty would be happy to implement EBML streams in Ogg (j/k) ;-)

This contradicts what Arc has mentioned in a previous message:

On 23/05/2004, at 5:54 PM, Arc Riley wrote:

> Remember this isn't just for subtitles.  It's possible that people will
> want to use Writ for displaying metadata/etc, possibly through the
> entire length of a track.

<http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200405/0154.html>.

... so I think Zen's response was quite justified.

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