Re: Multi-channel labels in Vorbis comments

On 17 November 2011 18:55, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> We did look at that, possibly using tar to wrap up four stereo Vorbis
>> files into a single package. That should reduce overall filesize,
>
> What Conrad meant is that you can include more than one single Vorbis
> stream in a single Ogg stream (most often seen whem you have a video
> with English audio, German audio, etc).
> Each such stream may be mono, stereo, or more, and you can have any
> reasonable number of Vorbis streams in there.
> So you end up with a single file, which you can easily preview in,
> say, VLC, by choosing the track you want from the audio menu. No need
> for an extra step such as tar.
> The advantage is that remuxing tools already know of such a step (eg,
> the oggz tools).

Yup. Also the stems would already be time-synchronized, ie. the whole
file would be streamable.

Conrad.