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