[vorbis] how much room for comments?

[Monty]

> Bang, so there can be a total load of ~16.777.216 Terabytes of comments
> in a vorbisfile...? Holy cow! :) Is that stored in plain text or is it
> huffman-coded? Well, I really hope that noone writes so many comments
> that zipping an .ogg would make any significant difference ... Geez,
> that's a LOT! Does the universe contain that many atoms?

The comment fields are to be used only for small, text tages; the
exact reationale is spelled out in vorbis/doc/v-comment.html.  Anyone
willfully abusing the intent of the comment header witll suffer just
enough wrath to make them want to stop :-)

> ... indeed, this sounds very interesting. Well, I'm not into xml at all,
> so I don't really understand your suggestion, but my imagination tells
> me that it must be very cool. What happened to this proposal? Is it
> somewhere in the to-do list? 

Yes, exactly.  It Will Be Done, it just isn't Done Yet.

Monty

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