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EBML

An EBML parser written in Go.

• Introduction
• Production readiness
• Documents
• Similar libraries

Introduction

Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML) is a generalized file format for any kind of data, aiming to be a binary equivalent to XML. It provides a basic framework for storing data in XML-like tags. It was originally developed for the Matroska audio/video container format.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Binary_Meta_Language

This library is based on the July 2020 version of RFC 8794 (with additions from github.com/ietf-wg-cellar/ebml-specification). This document did not reach "Internet Standard" status yet. RFC 8794 is in a "Proposed Standard" status.

The goal of this project is to create an implementation based on the document and during the implementation provide feedback.

Production readiness

This project is still in alpha phase. In this stage the public API can change between days.

Beta version will be considered when the feature set covers the documents the implementation is based on, and the public API is reached a mature state.

Stable version will be considered only if enough positive feedback is gathered to lock the public API and all document the implementation is based on became "Internet Standard".

Documents

Official sites

• libEBML
• EBML Specification
• Matroska
• Matroska Element Specification
• WebM
• WebM Container Guidelines

Huge thanks to the Matroska.org for their work.

IETF Documents

• RFC 8794: Extensible Binary Meta Language

Huge thanks to the IETF CELLAR Working Group for their work.

Inspiration

Inspiration for the implementation comes from the following places:

• https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql#Drivers
• https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql#Register
• https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json#Decoder
• https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/image/vp8#Decoder

Similar libraries

Last updated: 2023-05-22

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https://github.com/ehmry/go-ebml	Deleted
https://github.com/jacereda/ebml	Last updated on 10 Jan 2016
https://github.com/mediocregopher/ebmlstream	Last updated on 15 Dec 2014
https://github.com/pankrator/ebml-parser	Last updated on 24 Jun 2020
https://github.com/pixelbender/go-matroska	Last updated on 29 Oct 2018
https://github.com/pubblic/ebml	Last updated on 12 Dec 2018
https://github.com/quadrifoglio/go-mkv	Last updated on 20 Jun 2018
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