[Vorbis-dev] Enhanced Podcasts with Ogg Vorbis (Chapter Marks)

[xiphmont at xiph.org]

> Would it be possible to add a recommendation for chapter marks on a xiph
> page (e.g. at [1], [2] or similar) ?
> Then it should be much easier to ask players for support ...
>
>
> My suggestion would be:
>
> CHAPTER MARKS
>
> Chapter marks allow you to navigate through chapters while listening to
> podcasts (enhanced podcasts), audiobooks and other long audio files.
>
> This format consists of pairs of comment fields that start with 'CHAPTERxx='
> and 'CHAPTERxxNAME=' respectively. The first one contains the start timecode
> (hh:mm:ss.mmm) while the second one contains the title.
>
> Here's an example:
>  CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
>  CHAPTER01NAME=Intro
>  CHAPTER02=00:02:30.000
>  CHAPTER02NAME=Baby prepares to rock
>  CHAPTER03=00:02:42.300
>  CHAPTER03NAME=Baby rocks the house
>  ...
>
> The same format is used as input by mkvmerge ('simple chapter format', see
> [3]) and by ogmmerge [4] (input for ogmmerge [5], output of dvdxchap [6]).

OK, given/assuming this is already a reasonably widely deployed way of
doing it, I agree.

Anyone have any last comments before I add it?

Monty