[xiph-rtp] Merge all metadata in one single packet.
Luca Barbato
lu_zero at gentoo.org
Tue Oct 4 13:03:55 PDT 2005
Michael Smith wrote:
>
> I think this is a bad idea. We should either disallow comment headers
> altogether, or allow them at arbitrary points.
I see.
> Given that we now have the opportunity to avoid this problem the
> second time around, we should take it. Allowing comment headers at
> arbitrary points solves the problem neatly, but your argument that
> this should really be handled in a seperate stream is somewhat
> compelling - hence my suggestion to just disallow them entirely.
I'd like to remove them for sake of simplicity and because I don't see
any usage that couldn't be covered in other ways (if somebody know
speaks now, please).
>
> Either way, packing the two really-mandatory setup packets (primary
> and 'codebook') together seems reasonably sensible.
I'll try something. Packing everything together is consistent with the
other non ogg usage of vorbis (matroska and ffmpeg families). Resending
everything just to change the comment informations is pretty overkill,
but updating the comment with the codebook and setup makes sense.
lu
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