[Flac-dev] ogg/flac and winamp plugin

smoerk smoerk at gmx.de
Wed Nov 21 09:45:06 PST 2001


after the disccusion in vorbis-dev i'm not sure for what ogg/flac is
good. i thought the tagging could be done with standard ogg tools.

and if flac is not integrated in the ogg libs, ogg/flac is for the most
people a corrupt ogg file, because the player cannot read it.

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:43:41 -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:18:16PM +0100, smoerk wrote:
>
>> how could i play ogg/flac files?
>> 
>> would it be possible to add flac support to the ogg libaries?
>> 
>> i would like to stream ogg/flac files over an icecast2 / jroar server
>> :).
>
>What would be required is support for ogg/flac in the streaming client (and
>perhaps in the server, depending on how sophisticated it is), by linking
>with libFLAC.  The ogg libraries do not, and should not, know anything about
>FLAC.






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