- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:39:02 +0200
- To: whatwg List <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? What would be the use case for handling it as part of sniffing layer? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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