[Flac-dev] Smarter flac / samba VFS module possible?

[Josh Coalson]

I'm not sure Bery (the author) is subscribed here; he's probably
the best one to ask first.

Josh

--- Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net> wrote:
> Hi all - 
> 
> Hope this isn't too OT - I've been playing with the file extention
> mapper VFS module for samba (http://file-ext-map.sourceforge.net/) to
> play flac files on my Audiotron.  The above module takes any *.flac
> file
> and presents it as a *.wav to the client, and decodes on the fly when
> the file is read.  It seems to work pretty well, but I often get the
> first second or so of a song repeated, and I think this is because
> the
> vfs module isn't able to seek on the pipe it opens to the flac
> process. 
> I'm still trying to work out what the audiotron is doing in terms of
> seeks etc.
> 
> Needless to say, this is quite annoying, I flac'd my cds for audio
> quality, and hearing the first second twice detracts quite a lot.  :)
> 
> So on to the question.  I assume that it should be possible to write
> a
> samba VFS module that talks directly to libflac, rather than opening
> pipes etc to the cmdline process, and perhaps this would give me the
> ability to do more or less proper seeks.... does this sound possible?
> 
> Does it sound like a sane approach?  Anybody want to help?  ;-)
> 
> -Eric


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