[vorbis] how much room for comments?

Moritz Grimm maxx at kolabore.de
Thu Mar 1 14:17:19 PST 2001



> > 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
> 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 :-)

Aye, captain! Me and my mateys thinks that v-comment.html is very
reasonable and therefore we will obey it. Arrrh ....

> > ... 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.

Great, I'm really looking forward to it!

Moritz

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