[Matroska-devel] EBML

[Christian HJ Wiesner]

Hi Martin,

welcome to this list !

Martin Nilsson wrote:

> Hello.
> I don't know if this is the most appropriate place for this, but I 
> didn't find any EBML specific forum. My name is Martin Nilsson and 
> once upon a time I did an overly complex standard called ID3v2. My 
> mission now is to seek out emerging standards that I am likely to be 
> affected by and make sure I can live with them :)

You are the 'founder' of the id3v2 standard ? What an honour to have you 
posting to this list ! Welcome again !

But i admit, being not a developer myself, i dont really understand how 
ebml or matroska could affect id3v2 ? Can you pls. explain this in 
layman's terms for a non-techie :) ?

> So this week I've spent one day writing an EBML library of my own, to 
> figure EBML out as best as I could, and two days on writing an EBML 
> specification draft. I hope this is an welcome effort and does not 
> collide with anything that you are already working on. The draft (and 
> I emphasize draft) is available at
> http://pike.ida.liu.se/generated/ebml.txt  Any feedback is good 
> feedback. /Martin Nilsson 

Wow. A new EBML lib ? What language is it in ? C or C++ ? What license 
did you choose for it ?

Christian
matroska project admin