[vorbis] Quality & Tags

[David K. Gasaway]

On 31 Jan 2002 at 20:10, Jonathan Walther wrote:

> I don't know what it means to "peel" a stream.  Could you explain?

I was referring to bitrate peeling.  Sorry.

> Since there is already a "vendor" tag which includes library version
> info, it makes sense to have the "encoding" tag, with the options that
> were used to encode the ogg.

I can't say why there is a vendor tag.  It would make more sense to me if that information was 
embeded into the encoded file (in a header or something).  The encoder version seems too 
important to place into a tag.  The tags are just a scratch-pad, and can be easily modified and/or 
removed at users' whims.  I wouldn't use the vendor tag as an excuse to add more metadata to 
the tags; YMMV.

<p>
--
-:-:- David K. Gasaway
-:-:- XNS  : =David K Gasaway
-:-:- Email: dave at gasaway.org
-:-:- Web  : dave.gasaway.org

<p>--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.