[flac-dev] Feedback on implementation of decoding of chained streams

[Timothy B. Terriberry]

brianw wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2024, at 12:44 PM, Martijn van Beurden wrote:
>> Everything works, but as is with any change to the API, I don't know
>> whether it is convenient for API users other than the flac command
>> line tool. So, I'd like some feedback.

I only looked briefly, but I had a few questions.

How does FLAC__stream_decoder_get_total_samples() work for chained 
streams? I.e., is there a way to get the total samples for all chained 
links (to know what the range of valid values for target_sample is for 
seek_to_absolute_sample_())?

Since chained streams can have different sample rates, how would one go 
about seeking to a specific _time_?

Am I reading the seeking implementation correctly that the only way to 
seek to a future link is to scan forward through all of the file data?