[gst-devel] Tagging, media-info

[iain]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 16:33 +0100, Benjamin Otte wrote:

> a):
> What are multiple tracks? When is something another track and when is it
> just a marker of some position inside a track? Or can both be expressed
> as the same thing? (This would require input from Iain about Marlin's use
> of markers...)

Hmm, in Marlin, a marker is (currently) simply a position in a sample
that has a name associated with it and doesn't really mean anything.
When ripping a CD as one long sample (for example), a marker is added at
each track break.

In other editors it is possible to save one sample as many files split
on the markers, or to burn the sample to a CD, using markers as the
track breaks. In Marlin, it might be nice (in the future) to use the
markers to make these multitrack ogg files, or to load them from
multitrack oggs. Currently the only file format that has support for
markers is wav, and they are simply used to signify a special point in a
sample, for example, a label point, or a loop point

But yeah, it'd be nice to use markers as special things like this.


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