- From: Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:59:17 -0500
- To: whatwg List <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Container formats like Ogg can be used to store many different audio and video formats, all of which can be identified generically as "application/ogg". Determining which individual format to use (which can be identified interchangeably as the slightly-less-generic "audio/ogg" or "video/ogg", or using a 'codecs' parameter, or using a dedicated media type) is much more complex, because they all use the same "OggS" signature. It would requiring actually attempting to parse the Ogg container to determine which audio or video format it is using (perhaps not unsimilar to what is done for MP4 video and what might have to be done with MP3 files without ID3 tags). Would this be something UAs would prefer to handle in their Ogg library, or should I spec it as part of sniffing? -- Gordon P. Hemsley me@gphemsley.org http://gphemsley.org/ • http://gphemsley.org/blog/
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