[NUT-devel] Re: r19110 - trunk/DOCS/tech/nut.txt

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:05:58AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:04:56AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> [...]
> > > now i dont know why xiph designed things like that, but i do know that
> > > they are _now_ aware of the issues (many people ask on their mailinglists
> > > about vorbis in non-ogg) and they dont specify how to turn the 3 packets
> > > into 1 ...
> > 
> > hmm. if they're "aware" of the issue now, do you think they'd be
> > amenable to publishing a xiph-sanctioned spec for how to store vorbis
> > in non-ogg containers. preferably using either the existing mkv format
> > or the pure concatenation which you demonstrated is possible. (these
> > two formats only differ by the existence of a few bytes of junk at the
> > beginning of the former.
> 
> well, ill subscribe & ask on vorbis-dev unless there are other ideas or
> some more diplomatic volunteer for it

imo you're a good spokesperson. i don't think they like me very much
these days... :) and you're well-respected for technical competence
and as one of the main developers of ffmpeg (albeit a project which
xiph doesn't much respect).

rich