FWD and RE: Suggestions and questions

This is part of a post to the Theora dev list that I'm quoting:

Hi,

> I'm not a developer but it takes one to answer my questions. I was just 
> thinking about how the command line encoder could work in the end (after 
> having played with encoder_example)
> Some ideas:

[snip]

> 3. Would it be possible to work into the theora framework the 
> possibility that a portion of a video file could be played from an 
> external file? Example: I want my Star Trek TNG episodes from DVD to 
> drive. The opening and titles are the same in each episode (almost) and 
> therefore I want to save space by forking them in like I said. Is this 
> possibly not the job of theora but rather some higher level mechanism, 
> or am I just being stupid? Perhaps something like those strange text 
> files that hide in front of wmv streams are what should do this, sort of 
> a playlist only one clip is forked into another. If the ogg had 2 
> logical streams there wouldn't be a problem putting something in 
> between, would there?

That is an interesting idea for the Tarkin dev team to think about,so I've CC'ed it to that list.  I don't think it could be easily shoe-horned in to Theora - in that instance, it would be better to do it external to the codec.

> Bye! (sorry if I'm off-topic, non-developer here)

No problem, we need ideas.

John.
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