[Flac-dev] --until decodes rest of file?

[Josh Coalson]

OK, fixed in CVS.  See also
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=851756&group_id=13478&atid=113478

Thanks,
Josh

--- Donald Gordon <don at dis.org.nz> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:42:05 -0800 (PST) Josh Coalson
> <xflac at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > sorry about the delay on this one...
> > 
> > do you have a sample flac file that you can host that exhibits
> > the problem?
> 
> Ha.  The flac files used in the examples below were of entire audio
> CDs;
> due to my use of "time" to demostrate the problem I need a fairly
> large
> file.
> 
> I can simulate the problem by creating a dummy test file:
> 
> ----
> donald at klatch:~$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=100 | flac -o
> test.flac --endian=little --channels=2 --bps=16 --sample-rate=44100
> --sign=signed --force-raw-format -
>  
> flac 1.1.0, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Josh Coalson
> flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and
> you are
> welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for
> details.
>  
> options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3
> (No runtime statistics possible; please wait for encoding to
> finish...)
> 100+0 records in
> 100+0 records out
> 104857600 bytes transferred in 6.731431 seconds (15577312 bytes/sec)
> ----
> 
> which will then exhibit the same problem -- it will take as long to
> decode the first million samples as the entire file:
> 
> ----
> donald at klatch:~$ time flac -d -o - test.flac >/dev/null
>  
> flac 1.1.0, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Josh Coalson
> flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and
> you are
> welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for
> details.
>  
> test.flac: done
>  
> real    0m12.367s
> user    0m9.290s
> sys     0m0.820s
> donald at klatch:~$ time flac -d -o - --until=+1048576 test.flac
> >/dev/null
>  
> flac 1.1.0, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Josh Coalson
> flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and
> you are
> welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for
> details.
>  
> test.flac: done
>  
> real    0m10.339s
> user    0m8.360s
> sys     0m0.610s
> ----
> 
> donald
> 
> 
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