[vorbis] What tags are allowed in ogg files?

Michael Smith msmith at labyrinth.net.au
Mon Jul 29 01:11:19 PDT 2002



At 06:58 PM 7/29/02 +1200, you wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:40, Michael Smith wrote:
>> >BTW, have the standard library functions for writing vorbiscomment headers
>> >been changed to initially write padded headers, and attempt to update the
>> >comments in place on subsequent writes, or is this feature still on the
>> >wishlist?
>>
>> Still on my TODO list (for vorbiscomment/vcedit, NOT for libvorbis -
>> libvorbis will continue to write non-padded headers).
>
>I presume that's to avoid messy API incompatibilities? I guess the 
>functionality will need to be rewritten as an extra function for pyvorbis and 
>friends.

Not really, we'd just be adding another function to create a comment
header with padding, or something like that. I just don't think it's
at all neccesary to have that in the core libraries - it's much more
common to NOT want padding.

Michael

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