[vorbis] vorbiscomment and multi line comments

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Thu Oct 2 04:29:27 PDT 2003



On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:09:17PM +1200, John Morton wrote:

> Fair enough, as '=' is a valid comment value character; vorbiscomment 
> couldn't distinguish an overrun line with a '=' in it from a new comment. I 
> figure I'll solve the problem by indenting multi line comments with a space,
> rather like Description blocks in debian control files, but I'm curious to 
> know whether anyone else has run into this problem (and cares :-), and
> whether there is any kind of fix in CVS I ought to know about and conform to.

No, we've not implemented any more sophisticated input format for vorbis 
comment. As you say, -t "foo=bar" works fine up to the length-limit of 
the commandline. I have run into the problem occasionally, but in those 
few cases I just used that as a work-around.

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