Re: FWD and RE: Suggestions and questions

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:46:06PM -0500, Chris Hanson wrote:
> At 8:03 PM +0100 10/2/02, [email protected] wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >Is this
> > > possibly not the job of theora but rather some higher level mechanism,
> > > or am I just being stupid?
> 
> QuickTime can reference external files or streams from within a 
> movie.  It's a property of the QuickTime movie format, not a property 
> of any particular CODEC.
> 
> So in the Xiph universe, this would be Ogg's job.  If Ogg can't do 
> this, then it needs to be fixed.

Quicktime is the name of a system that's many abstraction layers deep.  This
belongs in Ogg the Project, but not as an 'extention' to Ogg transport
streams.

Monty
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