OGM ID3-like info [Archive]

LoKi128

26th June 2002, 05:15

I imagine that the OGG container has a way of storing some file data as a header or something... right? In OggMux, you can set a title at least.

Anyway, just thinking about some useful info we can store in our OGMs, such as:

Title
Year

Studio
Producer
Director

Source
- DVD, VHS, TV-NTSC, TV-PAL, HDTV
Aspect Ratio (at which it should be played back)

List of cast and crew, variable

The cast will of course have the name of the actor and the name of the character he/she played/voiced. The aspect ratio is for maybe anamorphic movies, etc.

Anyway, just a thought. Of course, the next step would be for all the players to read and display the info. This would be very nice when we all have terabyte drive space and we store all our movies online. Easy indexing :)

Emp3r0r

26th June 2002, 05:26

if this isn't already possible, then you could use a divx movie manager... actually it would be nice if everything worked together with each other... exactly why I'm learning SOAP

Neo Neko

26th June 2002, 23:32

Vorbis files in OGG support such tagging info. It should easilly be possible.

LoKi128

27th June 2002, 04:38

How about the OGG format itself? Without the vorbis part?

for example, a OGM that has XviD+AC3 and nothing else. Could you add some tags to that?

Belgabor

27th June 2002, 10:23

I believe its possible. Just use GraphEdit to mux and put custom tags into the video stream like the title and chapter tags. You can afterwards extract them via the IPropertyBag/IPersist(ant?)PropertyBag Interface of the video output pin of the OGG Splitter.

EDIT: AVI-Splitter has methinks a special interface for such info, but thats so far not supported by the OGG Splitter.

Cheers
Belgabor

Latexxx

27th June 2002, 13:20

ID tags are independent from the contents of the file. I think it should be possible to open the video ogg to winamp and change/insert id tags.
More info: http://www.id3.org/

Belgabor

27th June 2002, 15:46

Originally posted by Latexxx
ID tags are independent from the contents of the file.

They mainly are, only the file format has to be tolerant to a 'pile of junk' at the start or end of the file (depending if v1 or v2 tag). Try to do that to a .exe ;)

Cheers
Belgabor

Latexxx

1st July 2002, 12:56

It might be possible to put a id tag after the program in .exe