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Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format
E1ven writes "The Ogg container format is being promoted by the Xiph Foundation for use with its Vorbis and Theora codecs. Unfortunately, a number of technical shortcomings in the format render it ill-suited to most, if not all, use cases. This article examines the most severe of these flaws."
I know. It's a right pain to stumble across an Vorbis encumbered file and then have to demux it, fix the stream to be something useful and then rebuild the file.
Why yes, I do use a device that doesn't support Theora|Vorbis. How could you tell?
Okay, I admit I am not very savvy on this technicalities of this discussion. I'm interested and trying to understand but this post confuses the hell out of me.
And he's right. Unless the technical details of Ogg are not as he represented them
He's right. unless he's wrong.
I've not looked at Ogg in detail, but I have written multimedia apps and his complaints are right on the mark.
I've not looked into the detail but the complaints about them are correct ( how do you know? You admit that he could be wrong and have not verified the data )
Even if most of them are untrue, the point about timestamps would have been a show stopper.
Even if he's lied his ass off, I'll still believe him on this point.
Just seems to me you started typing before you decided to believe the article yourself Raven.
I've lost all my marbles except one & It's fun to test angular & centripetal acceleration in my skull