[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 540890] Need generic way of handling multi-track/chapters files

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540890
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--- Comment #49 from Sebastian Dröge <slomo at circular-chaos.org> 2010-08-04 12:49:44 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #48)
> (In reply to comment #46)
> > Other than that this looks good now... But we should really try to implement
> > this in the matroska demuxer/muxer first and in flacdec/flacenc and
> > additionally implement a playlist element to see if this really fits with all
> > the use cases.
> 
> I have been following this progress with excitement, and I would just like to
> point out one use case which otherwise might be unnoticed.
> Videogame music and tracked music often have many songs in one file.
> 
> Preferably, applications wouldn't view these as chapters, but as completely
> separate songs. I guess in that regard it would be vastly different from, say,
> an MKV file, or some other playlist.
> 
> Is this possible using this design?

Yes, we should find better names for the two TOC entry types. Something like
"part" and "alternative" maybe...

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